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.

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