SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
The basic building block of ever larger data centers has shifted from a rack to a modular container with hundreds or even thousands of servers. Delivering scalable bandwidth among...
USITS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
The boundary between the network edge and the front-end servers of the data center is blurring. Appliance vendors are flooding the market with new capabilities, while switch/route...
MASCOTS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
— We present a tool, PerfCenter, that takes as input the deployment, configuration, message flow and workload details of the hardware and software servers in an application hos...
NETWORKING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Asset tracking is a critical problem in modern data centers with modular and easily movable servers. This paper studies a wireless asset tracking solution built using wireless USB ...
NSDI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Today's data centers offer tremendous aggregate bandwidth to clusters of tens of thousands of machines. However, because of limited port densities in even the highest-end swi...
DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Interactive applications such as email, calendar, and maps are migrating from local desktop machines to data centers due to the many advantages offered by such a computing environ...
IDA
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
We present a data mining approach to model the cooling infrastructure in data centers, particularly the chiller ensemble. These infrastructures are poorly understood due to the lac...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
The rapidly rising cost and environmental impact of energy consumption in data centers has become a multi-billion dollar concern globally. In response, the IT Industry is actively...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
Power delivery, electricity consumption, and heat management are becoming key challenges in data center environments. Several past solutions have individually evaluated different ...
NSDI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Virtualization can provide significant benefits in data centers by enabling virtual machine migration to eliminate hotspots. We present Sandpiper, a system that automates the ta...