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Balancing Site Goals and Service Goals in Datacenter Management

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Overview A shift is witnessed from large mainframe computing to commodity, off-the-shelf clusters of servers. The cluster paradigm allows organizations to acquire resources at a fine granularity, scaling the cluster to provide the resources necessary for increasingly-powerful simulations, multimedia rendering, and web farms. As yesterday's clusters grow into today's data centers, the authors are seeing a push back towards the centralized placement of servers, driven by high initial costs of ownership and complex cooling and power infrastructure demands. Today's data centers contain thousands or tens of thousands of servers, providing services and computation for tens or hundreds of thousands of users.

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Publisher	Duke University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Data Center

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