Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Fifth Edition, explores the ways that
software and technology in the cloud are accessed by digital media, such as cell phones …

This book describes warehouse-scale computers (WSCs), the computing platforms that
power cloud computing and all the great web services we use every day. It discusses how …

Constructing energy-efficient database systems to reduce economic costs and
environmental impact has been studied for 10 years. With the emergence of the big data …

Much of the success of the Internet services model can be attributed to the popularity of a
class of workloads that we call Online Data-Intensive (OLDI) services. These workloads …

In the last fifty years the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT. We
have now reached a new inflection point. This book presents, for the first time, how in …

Data center-scale clusters are evolving towards heterogeneous hardware for power, cost,
differentiated price-performance, and other reasons. MapReduce is a well-known …

The area of cluster-level energy management has attracted significant research attention
over the past few years. One class of techniques to reduce the energy consumption of …

In the last decade we have seen a huge deployment of cheap clusters to run data analytics
workloads. The conventional wisdom in industry and academia is that scaling out using a …

In the late 1990s, powerful economic forces led to the adoption of commodity desktop
processors in high-performance computing. This transformation has been so effective that …

We present topic-regression multi-modal Latent Dirich-let Allocation (tr-mmLDA), a novel
statistical topic model for the task of image and video annotation. At the heart of our new …