Optimizing data-center tco with scale-out processors

IEEE Micro

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 52-63

  Grot, Boris ^a   Hardy, Damien ^b   Lotfi Kamran, Pejman ^a   Falsafi, Babak ^a   Nicopoulos, Chrysostomos ^b   Sazeides, Yiannakis ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

data centers; performance; Scale Out Processors; total cost of ownership

Indexed keywords

DATA CENTERS; LOW POWER; ON CHIPS; PERFORMANCE; SERVER PROCESSORS; TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84869159380     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2012.71     Document Type: Article

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