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Understanding and Designing New Server Architectures for Emerging Warehouse-Computing Environments

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Parthasarathy Ranganathan,

Chandrakant Patel,

Steven ReinhardtAuthors Info & Claims

ISCA '08: Proceedings of the 35th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

Pages 315 - 326

https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCA.2008.37

Published: 01 June 2008 Publication History

Abstract

This paper seeks to understand and design next-generation servers for emerging "warehouse-computing" environments. We make two key contributions. First, we put together a detailed evaluation infrastructure including a new benchmark suite for warehouse-computing workloads, and detailed performance, cost, and power models, to quantitatively characterize bottlenecks. Second, we study a new solution that incorporates volume non-server-class components in novel packaging solutions, with memory sharing and flash-based disk caching. Our results show that this approach has promise, with a 2X improvement on average in performance-per-dollar for our benchmark suite.

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ISCA '08: Proceedings of the 35th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

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ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News Volume 36, Issue 3
June 2008
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