# Morgan & Claypool Publishers - Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture - 8(3):1 - Abstract - Host: [morganclaypool.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/morganclaypool.com/) - Saved: August 15, 2013 (2013-08-15T12:11:55Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d4c71ca2b19a/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d4c71ca2b19a.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of interest no longer resembles a pizza box or a refrigerator, but a warehouse full of computers. These new large datacenters are quite different from traditional hosting facilities of earlier times and cannot be viewed simply as a collection of co-located servers. Large portions of the hardware and software resources in these facilities must work in concert to efficiently deliver good levels of Internet service performance, something that can only be achieved by a holistic approach to their design and deployment. In other words, we must treat the datacenter itself as one massive warehouse-scale computer (WSC). We describe the architecture of WSCs, the main factors influencing their design, operation, and cost structure, and the characteristics of their software base. We hope it will be useful to architects and programmers of todays WSCs, as well as those of future many-core platforms which may one day implement the equivalent of todays WSCs on a single board. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Saved the same week - [A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water | Environment | theguardian.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7008087b40cb/) (theguardian.com, August 12, 2013) - [Featured Monthly Gallery: Iceland - lizstel's Photos - SmugMug](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d55594c4c70f/) (billarmstrong.photography, August 13, 2013) - [Jeff Bezos On How Innovation Happens - Business Insider](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b881294540ea/) (businessinsider.com, August 14, 2013) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.morganclaypool.com/action/cookieAbsent