Archive For May 16, 2009

The Datacenter as a Computer

The Datacenter as a Computer

A couple of weeks back, a mini-book by Luiz André Barroso and Urs Hölzle of the Google infrastructure team was released. The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines is just over 100 pages long but an excellent introduction into very high scale computing and the issues important at scale….

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