Tag: Efficiency
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Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon
Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon: Borg is a way of efficiently parceling work across Google’s vast fleet of computer servers, and according to Wilkes, the system is so effective, it has probably saved Google the cost of building an extra data center. Yes, an entire data center. That may seem…
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It’s a VM Wasteland – A Near Optimal Packing of VMs to Machines Reduces TCO by 22%
Algorithm Design for Performance Aware VM Consolidation: Consolidation of multiple workloads, encapsulated in virtual machines (VMs), can significantly improve efficiency in cloud infrastructures. But consolidation also introduces contention in shared resources such as the memory hierarchy, leading to degraded VM performance. To avoid such degradation, the current practice is to not pack VMs tightly and…
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