Extending the Moore's law by exploring new data center architecture
Jian ouyang, Wei Qi, Yong Wang · 2016
In recent ten years, lots of new applications emerged, such as AI, big data and cloud. Though the workloads of these applications are very diverse, they demand huge resource of data center. In contrast, the silicon technology moves slower and slower because the Moore's law is going to the end. Consequently, the data center building from commodity hardware cannot provide enough cost-efficiency and power-efficiency. To meet the increasingly resource needs of emerging applications, the scale of data center is become much larger and larger. It consumes huge power and cost of hardware. From the business perspective, the slow development of hardware technology limits the value creation of emerging applications.