The problem space: big data
Big demand for enormous amounts of data
- today: high-end enterprise and Internet applications
- enterprise decision-support, data mining databases
- online applications: e-commerce, mail, web, archives
- future: infrastructure services, richer data
- computational & storage back-ends for mobile devices
- more multimedia content
- more use of historical data to provide better services
Today’s server designs can’t easily scale to meet these huge demands
- bus bandwidth bottlenecks limit access to stored data
- SMP designs are near their limits and don’t offer incremental growth path