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The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines

September 9, 2011 Mosharaf Leave a comment

Luiz Andre Barroso and Urs Holzle, "The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines," Chapters 1-4 and 7, Morgan & Claypool Publishers. [PDF]

Summary

With the advent of large Internet service providers (e.g., Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!), clusters full of commodity machines are becoming increasingly common. The authors of this … Continue Reading ››

Back in Berkeley after a Summer in MSR Redmond

September 8, 2011 Mosharaf Leave a comment

After a long Summer that included an internship at MSR Redmond/Bing, attending SIGCOMM in Toronto, and a trip to Bangladesh, I'm back in Berkeley again. Time to work! This summer I worked with Dave Maltz and Lijiang Fang at MSR/Bing on a datacenter-related problem.