An Architecture for Modular Data Centers
Summary: Advocates using fully-populated, standardized shipping containers as the unit of purchase, deployment, and management for commodity server clusters to enable mass-manufacturing, rapid deployment, mobility, and simplified recycling. Leverages software redundancy to tolerate cheap, failure-prone hardware while addressing heat, power, communications, large-scale administration, and placement trade-offs to substantially cut cost and accelerate upgrades. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. James Hamilton (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{hamilton_cidr07,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '07},
title = {{An Architecture for Modular Data Centers}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Hamilton, James},
year = {2007}
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| 2,814 | Cooperative Expendable Micro-Slice Servers (CEMS): Low Cost, Low Power Servers for Internet-Scale Services | 2009 | CIDR | 8.0972113e-05 |
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