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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- IDC Opinion
- In This Study
- Extreme Computing Defined
- Situation Overview
- Rationale Behind IDC' s Focus on Extreme Computing
- Large Datacenters Face an Array of Increasingly Complex Challenges
- Commercial and Technical Datacenter Issues and Requirements Are Converging in a Number of Areas
- Major IT Vendors Have Customers Who Are Doing Extreme Computing
- IDC Wants to Promote These Examples as Best Practices to Help Transform Datacenter Operations
- Issues Facing Large Centers Around the World
- Server, Network, and Storage Options Create Complexity
- Using Technologies at Large Scale
- Facilities Issues
- Example IDC Extreme Computing Research Areas
- Servers, Interconnects/Networking, Software, Storage, Datacenter Management, Virtualization, Consolidation, and Outsourcing
- How Leading Vendors Are Addressing These Critical Problems
- Datacenter End-User Examples
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Google
- Wachovia Bank
- Future Outlook
- Essential Guidance
- Guidance for Datacenter Managers
- Guidance for Users
- Guidance for IT Vendors
- Learn More
- Related Research
- Synopsis
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