Move on Sun, here’s Google substituting Data Center for Network as the computer in this paper
“We believe the problems that today’s large Internet services (Google, amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo) face will soon be meaningful to a much larger constituency because many organizations will soon be able to afford similarly sized computers at a much lower cost. Even today, the attractive economics of low-end server class computing platforms puts clusters of hundreds of nodes within the reach of a relatively broad range of corporations and research institutions. When combined with the trends toward large numbers of processor cores on a single die, a single rack of servers may soon have as many or more hardware threads than many of today’s datacenters. For example, a rack with 40 servers, each with four 8-core dual-threaded CPUs, would contain more than two thousand hardware threads. Such systems will arguably be affordable to a very large number of organizations within just a few years, while exhibiting some of the scale, architectural organization, and fault behavior of today’s WSC (Warehouse Scale Machines). Therefore, we believe that our experience building these unique systems will be useful in understanding the design issues and programming challenges for those potentially ubiquitous next-generation machines.”
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