Scale-out processors: Bridging the efficiency gap between servers and emerging cloud workloads
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 04:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Cloud computing has emerged as a dominant computing platform providing billions of users world-wide with online services. The software applications powering these services, commonly referred to as scale-out workloads and which include web search, social networking and business analytics, tend to be characterized by massive working sets, high degrees of parallelism, and real-time constraints features that set them apart from desktop, parallel and traditional commercial server applications.