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Warehouse-Scale Computers to
Exploit Request-Level and
Data-Level Parallelism
The datacenter is the computer.
Luiz André Barroso,
Google (2007)
A hundred years ago, companies stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dy-
namos and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric util-
ities didn't just change how businesses operate. It set of a chain reaction of economic and social
transformations that brought the modern world into existence. Today, a similar revolution is under
way. Hooked up to the Internet's global computing grid, massive information-processing plants
have begun pumping data and software code into our homes and businesses. This time, it's comput-
ing that's turning into a utility.
Nicholas Carr
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
(2008)
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