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Handbook on Data Centers

  • Comprises the expanse of data storage research topics, including next generation data center design, disaster recovery in data centers, and data centers outsourcing

  • Addresses the vast area of data center efficiency, such as energy-efficiency, cost-effective strategies, optical data center networks, and performance optimization techniques

  • Provides all fundamentals, from basic concepts, to infrastructures and industry applications

  • Combines both experimental and theoretical research to address challenges faced by industry and academia alike

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (46 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Energy Efficiency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Energy-Aware Algorithms for Task Graph Scheduling, Replica Placement and Checkpoint Strategies

      • Guillaume Aupy, Anne Benoit, Paul Renaud-Goud, Yves Robert
      Pages 37-80
    3. Energy Efficiency in HPC Data Centers: Latest Advances to Build the Path to Exascale

      • Sébastien Varrette, Pascal Bouvry, Mateusz Jarus, Ariel Oleksiak
      Pages 81-107
    4. Techniques to Achieve Energy Proportionality in Data Centers: A Survey

      • Madhurima Pore, Zahra Abbasi, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Georgios Varsamopoulos
      Pages 109-162
    5. A Power-Aware Autonomic Approach for Performance Management of Scientific Applications in a Data Center Environment

      • Rajat Mehrotra, Ioana Banicescu, Srishti Srivastava, Sherif Abdelwahed
      Pages 163-189
    6. CoolEmAll: Models and Tools for Planning and Operating Energy Efficient Data Centres

      • Micha vor dem Berge, Jochen Buchholz, Leandro Cupertino, Georges Da Costa, Andrew Donoghue, Georgina Gallizo et al.
      Pages 191-245
    7. Smart Data Center

      • Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan, Samee U. Khan
      Pages 247-262
    8. Power and Thermal Efficient Numerical Processing

      • Wei Liu, Alberto Nannarelli
      Pages 263-286
    9. Providing Green Services in HPC Data Centers: A Methodology Based on Energy Estimation

      • Mohammed El Mehdi Diouri, Olivier Glück, Laurent Lefèvre, Jean-Christophe Mignot
      Pages 287-323
  3. Networking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 325-325
    2. Network Virtualization in Data Centers: A Data Plane Perspective

      • Weirong Jiang, Viktor K. Prasanna
      Pages 327-349
    3. Scalable Network Communication Using Unreliable RDMA

      • Ryan E. Grant, Mohammad J. Rashti, Pavan Balaji, Ahmad Afsahi
      Pages 393-424
    4. Packet Classification on Multi-core Platforms

      • Yun R. Qu, Shijie Zhou, Viktor K. Prasanna
      Pages 425-447
    5. Optical Interconnects for Data Center Networks

      • Khurram Aziz, Mohsin Fayyaz
      Pages 449-483
    6. TCP Congestion Control in Data Center Networks

      • Rohit P. Tahiliani, Mohit P. Tahiliani, K. Chandra Sekaran
      Pages 485-505
    7. Routing Techniques in Data Center Networks

      • Shaista Habib, Fawaz S. Bokhari, Samee U. Khan
      Pages 507-532
  4. Cloud Computing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 533-533

About this book

This handbook offers a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art research achievements in the field of data centers. Contributions from international, leading researchers and scholars offer topics in cloud computing, virtualization in data centers, energy efficient data centers, and next generation data center architecture.  It also comprises current research trends in emerging areas, such as data security, data protection management, and network resource management in data centers.

Specific attention is devoted to industry needs associated with the challenges faced by data centers, such as various power, cooling, floor space, and associated environmental health and safety issues, while still working to support growth without disrupting quality of service. The contributions cut across various IT data technology domains as a single source to discuss the interdependencies that need to be supported to enable a virtualized, next-generation, energy efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly data center.

This book appeals to a broad spectrum of readers, including server, storage, networking, database, and applications analysts, administrators, and architects. It is intended for those seeking to gain a stronger grasp on data center networks: the fundamental protocol used by the applications and the network, the typical network technologies, and their design aspects. The Handbook of Data Centers is a leading reference on design and implementation for planning, implementing, and operating data center networks.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA

    Samee U. Khan

  • School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Albert Y. Zomaya

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eBook USD 169.00
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Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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