As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform
of interest no longer resembles a pizza box or a refrigerator, but a
warehouse full of computers. These new large datacenters are quite
different from traditional hosting facilities of earlier times and
cannot be viewed simply as a collection of co-located servers. Large
portions of the hardware and software resources in these facilities must
work in concert to efficiently deliver good levels of Internet service
performance, something that can only be achieved by a holistic approach
to their design and deployment. In other words, we must treat the
datacenter itself as one massive warehouse-scale computer (WSC). We
describe the architecture of WSCs, the main factors influencing their
design, operation, and cost structure, and the characteristics of their
software base. We hope it will be useful to architects and programmers
of today’s WSCs, as well as those of future many-core platforms which
may one day implement the equivalent of today’s WSCs on a single board. Read the book over here.
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