Computer scientists at the UC San Diego's Jacobs School of
Engineering have proposed a new way to build data centers that
could save companies money and deliver more computing capability
to end-users. "Large companies are putting together server farms
of tens of thousands of computers – even approaching
100-thousand, and the big challenge is to interconnect all these
computers so that they can talk to each other as quickly as
possible, without incurring significant costs," said Amin
Vahdat, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) in
UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. "We are proposing a
new topology for Ethernet data center connectivity." The
innovation is outlined in a paper, titled "A Scalable, Commodity
Data Center Network Architecture," presented today by Vahdat at
the annual meeting of SIGCOMM, the Special Interest Group on
Data Communications. SIGCOMM is the premier academic conference
for researchers in the fields of communications and computer
networks, and the event runs throu