Cooperative Expendable Micro-Slice Servers (CEMS): Low Cost, Low Power Servers for Internet-Scale Services
Summary: Argues for CEMS: many commodity low-power "micro-slice" servers with a fail-in-place model as a cheaper, more energy-efficient alternative to purpose-built servers. Validates using work-per-dollar and work-per-joule metrics and measured throughput from a large consumer service. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. James Hamilton (Amazon)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{hamilton_cidr09,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '09},
title = {{Cooperative Expendable Micro-Slice Servers (CEMS): Low Cost, Low Power Servers for Internet-Scale Services}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Hamilton, James},
year = {2009}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 120 | HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00031680027 |
| 3,104 | Energy Management for MapReduce Clusters | 2010 | VLDB | 7.7552953e-05 |
| 7,525 | Towards Cost-Effective Storage Provisioning for DBMSs | 2012 | VLDB | 5.6029996e-05 |
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| 13,783 | An Architecture for Modular Data Centers | 2007 | CIDR | - |
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