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A shift is witnessed from large mainframe computing to commodity, off-the-shelf clusters of servers. The cluster paradigm allows organizations to acquire resources at a fine granularity, scaling the cluster to provide the resources necessary for increasingly-powerful simulations, multimedia rendering, and web farms. As yesterday's clusters grow into today's data centers, the authors are seeing a push back towards the centralized placement of servers, driven by high initial costs of ownership and complex cooling and power infrastructure demands. Today's data centers contain thousands or tens of thousands of servers, providing services and computation for tens or hundreds of thousands of users.

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Date:Dec 2007
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