Improving per-node efficiency in the datacenter with new OS abstractions
Barret Rhoden, Kevin Klues, David Zhu, Eric Brewer · 2011
We believe datacenters can benefit from more focus on per-node efficiency, performance, and predictability, versus the more common focus so far on scalability to a large number of nodes. Improving per-node efficiency decreases costs and fault recovery because fewer nodes are required for the same amount of work. We believe that the use of complex, general-purpose operating systems is a key contributing factor to these inefficiencies.