Energy Efficient Servers: Blueprints for Data Center Optimization

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank technical and content reviewers who significantly improved the quality of the book. This includes Ameya Ambardekar, Avinash Avanthakrishnan, Len Brown, Bill Carter, Gaurav Khanna, Naren Meadem, Bains Kuljit, Raghunathan Srinivasan, Ankush Varma, Vish Viswanathan, Sujal Vora, and Henry Wong.

We would also like to thank Dan Kingsley, Harry Li, Yingqi (Lucy) Lu, and Shubin Zhao for providing the measurement data from data center workloads we used to illustrate concepts discussed in the book.

Wes Perdue and Knut Grimsrud provided key insights into HDD and SSD power management characteristics and trends.

Finally, the authors would like to thank our families for their support while the authors spent nights, weekends, ...