Title
Low-power amdahl-balanced blades for data intensive computing
Abstract
Enterprise and scientific data sets double every year, forcing similar growths in storage size and power consumption. As a consequence, current system architectures used to build data warehouses are about to hit a power consumption wall. In this paper we propose an alternative architecture comprising large number of so-called Amdahl blades that combine energy-efficient CPUs with solid state disks to increase sequential read I/O throughput by an order of magnitude while keeping power consumption constant. We also show that while keeping the total cost of ownership constant, Amdahl blades offer five times the throughput of a state-of-theart computing cluster for data-intensive applications. Finally, using the scaling laws originally postulated by Amdahl, we show that systems for data-intensive computing must maintain a balance between low power consumption and per-server throughput to optimize performance perWatt.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1740390.1740407
Operating Systems Review
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Amdahl blade,data-intensive computing,data intensive computing,so-called Amdahl blade,solid state disks,data-intensive application,Low-power amdahl-balanced blade,low power consumption,power consumption,per-server throughput,data warehouse,data-intensive science,power consumption wall,O throughput
Journal
44
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
43
2.37
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander S. Szalay1959105.36
Gordon Bell21050532.60
H. Howie Huang353740.29
Andreas Terzis42449169.59
Alainna White5432.37