Title
Extreme Datacenter Specialization for Planet-Scale Computing: ASIC Clouds.
Abstract
Planet-scale applications are driving the exponential growth of the cloud, and datacenter specialization is the key enabler of this trend, providing order of magnitudes improvements in cost-effectiveness and energy-efficiency. While exascale computing remains a goal for supercomputing, specialized datacenters have emerged and have demonstrated beyond-exascale performance and efficiency in specific domains. This paper generalizes the applications, design methodology, and deployment challenges of the most extreme form of specialized datacenter: ASIC Clouds. It analyzes two game-changing, real-world ASIC Clouds-Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Clouds and Tensor Processing Clouds-discuss their incentives, the empowering technologies and how they benefit from the specialized ASICs. Their business models, architectures and deployment methods are useful for envisioning future potential ASIC Clouds and forecasting how they will transform computing, the economy and society.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2018
Operating Systems Review
ASIC, Accelerator, Datacenter
Field
DocType
Volume
Exascale computing,Software deployment,Supercomputer,Computer science,Design methods,Application-specific integrated circuit,Business model,Cryptocurrency,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Journal
52
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
24
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shaolin Xie100.68
Scott Davidson2143.05
Ikuo Magaki3151.43
Moein Khazraee4162.45
Luis Vega500.34
Lu Zhang616340.09
Michael Bedford Taylor71707154.51