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Data centers are specialized facilities that house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. They are designed to manage, store, and disseminate large volumes of data, ensuring high availability, security, and efficient operation of IT infrastructure for organizations.
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Data centers are specialized facilities that house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. They are designed to manage, store, and disseminate large volumes of data, ensuring high availability, security, and efficient operation of IT infrastructure for organizations.
The scientific community is in the midst of a data analysis crisis. The increasing capacity of scientific CCD instrumentation and their falling costs is contributing to an explosive generation of raw photometric data. This data must go... more
The reliability of a data center is highly dependent on its air conditioning and cooling system. This research evaluates the existing cooling system of Universitas Krisnadwipayana's data center using the PPDIOO Network Life-Cycle... more
the article discusses the quali cation of a doctrine of an American jurist Ronald Dworkin as a «third theory of law», intermediate between positivism and natural law. Limitation of such quali cation is substantiated, primarily in terms of... more
Modern archival scholarship and practice are strikingly absent from contemporary historical theory. Given the archive's enduring importance for history and its longthematized political aspects, this absence is especially notable when... more
The rapid global growth of data centres, essential for powering digital infrastructure, has brought a significant and often overlooked environmental issue: water consumption. While the industry mainly aims to cut energy use, the... more
As computing power becomes central to geopolitical rivalry, cloud infrastructure is increasingly framed as critical to national security, economic resilience, and technological sovereignty. Current debates often focus on global... more
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has catalysed the development of increasingly complex and computationally intensive machine learning models, such as GPT-4, BERT, and DALL•E, which demand substantial energy resources... more
Una nueva tendencia para almacenar y usar datos e información, es la creación de las Embajadas de Datos, centros de almacenamiento en países ajenos a los propietarios de esas fuentes. Su auge pone en riesgo la tradicional práctica... more
This article examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on education and workforce development in small island territories, with a particular focus on the Cayman Islands. As a British Overseas Territory and sub-national island... more
The rapid growth of cloud computing both in terms of the spectrum and volume of cloud workloads brought many challenges to the traditional data center design -fast changing system configuration requirements due to workload constraints,... more
This paper explores the financial and environmental costs associated with the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence (AI). Particularly, it examines the exponential increase in compute and resource requirements for training... more
'Artificial intelligence (AI) creates value' is a phrase that circulates through Danish policy documents and consultancy reports, across conference stages and appears in opinion pieces and political speeches. Through ethnographic... more
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising architectural approach based on a programmatic separation of the control and data planes. For high availability purposes, logically centralized SDN controllers follow a distributed... more
Programmable Network like SDN allows administrators to program network nfrastructure according to service demand and custom-defined policies. Network olicies are interpreted by the centralized controller to define actions and rules to... more
The multi core fibre can be successfully applied not only the long-haul ultra-high capacity transmission but also in data interconnects and integrated distribution networks. In this paper, the proposed application areas are reviewed.
Os benefícios e as riquezas geradas pela IA enriquecem desproporcionalmente as nações do Norte Global, ao passo que os riscos são terceirizados para regiões vulneráveis do Sul Global. Os impactos dos sistemas de IA no Sul Global não são... more
Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa em andamento, cujo objetivo geral é caracterizar o atual setor de data centers no Brasil. Os objetivos específicos são: (i) identificar quais empresas atuam no setor de data centers no... more
This article explores the historical and structural foundations of digital colonialism by examining how contemporary digital infrastructures, dominated by powerful multinational corporations and nation-states, replicate and extend... more
The environmental impacts of Big Tech fall disproportionately on economically poor people and countries, meanwhile material wealth concentrates to the few at the top. This essay examines how cloud computing uses the logic of coloniality... more
In the recent years, overlay networks have emerged as a crucial platform for deployment of various distributed applications. Many of these applications rely on data redundancy techniques, such as erasure coding, to achieve higher fault... more
Discover how 800G AOC cables are revolutionizing data centers with unmatched bandwidth, low latency, and energy efficiency. Learn key benefits, real‑world applications, and best practices in our comprehensive guide.
The OpenFlow architecture is a proposal from the Clean Slate initiative to define a new Internet architecture where the network devices are simple, and the control and management plane is performed by a centralized controller. The... more
The global energy sector is undergoing a radical transformation driven by three intersecting megatrends: decarbonization, digitalization, and decentralization. As governments, businesses, and civil societies race to meet net-zero targets,... more
When silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs), defined for transmitting and receiving optical data, are successfully monolithic-integrated into major silicon electronic chips as chip-level optical I/Os (inputs/outputs), it will bring... more
FPGA-based accelerators are becoming a first class citizen in data centers. Adding FPGAs in data centers can lead to higher compute densities with improved energy efficiency for latency critical workloads, such as financial applications.... more
The exponential rise of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and big data is driving unprecedented energy demand in data centers. By 2030, data centers are projected to consume 10% of the world's electricity, with cooling... more
Large-scale systems with arrays of solid state disks (SSDs) have become increasingly common in many computing segments. To make such systems resilient, we can adopt erasure coding such as Reed-Solomon (RS) code as an alternative to... more
The complex turbulent flow regimes encountered in many thermal-fluid engineering applications have proven resistant to the effective application of systematic design because of the computational expense of model evaluation and the... more
Here, we report on the design and performance of a silicon photonic micro-transceiver required to operate in 5G and 6G environments at high ambient temperatures above 105 °C. The four-channel “IOCore” micro-transceiver incorporates a 1310... more
The term “just transition” has proliferated in recent years but remains a deeply contested term. While the focus has increasingly shifted to ensuring just processes as well as outcomes as we transition to a low-carbon economy, there has... more
At present, in the whole world from developed countries to third-world, digitization has taken place in society and economy with great intensity and also being adapted by a common person as his/her normal daily routine. Due to this huge... more
Parlem de think tanks i centres de dades només per donar una visió general del tema, amb alguns exemples en què apareixeran Kimberley Kagan -presidenta de l'Institute for the Study of War (ISW)-, Robert Kagan, William Kristol i Larry... more
The high replication cost of Byzantine fault-tolerance (BFT) methods has been a major barrier to their widespread adoption in commercial distributed applications. We present ZZ, a new approach that reduces the replication cost of BFT... more
adaptive enterprise, utility computing Utility computing has the potential to revolutionize the way we purchase, organize, and distribute computational power and services. It will do so by offloading resource provisioning to centralized... more
In this paper, we study Transport Control Protocol (TCP) in-cast congestion control. In cast may severely degrade their performances by increasing response time also we study among TCP throughput, round trip time (RTT) and receive window.... more
The capital success of multinational tech companies is usually understood to be a result of innovative business models that offer free user access to digital services in return for data. This article shows that besides platformization,... more
As cloud computing continues to expand rapidly, its environmental impact has become a pressing concern, particularly regarding energy consumption and resource utilization within data centers. This paper explores sustainable computing... more
In today's fast-paced digital age, data centers play a crucial role in supporting essential internet operations such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). As these technologies become more complex... more
Modern day data centers coordinate hundreds of thousands of heterogeneous tasks and aim at delivering highly reliable cloud computing services. Although offering equal reliability to all users benefits everyone at the same time, users may... more
The high replication cost of Byzantine fault-tolerance (BFT) methods has been a major barrier to their widespread adoption in commercial distributed applications. We present ZZ, a new approach that reduces the replication cost of BFT... more
Efficient resource management in data centers and clouds running large distributed data processing frameworks like MapReduce is crucial for enhancing the performance of hosted applications and increasing resource utilization. However,... more
With the significant advances in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) over the last half century, there is an increasingly perceived vision that computing will one day be the 5th utility (after water, electricity, gas, and... more
which explores uses of media technologiesfrom satellites to television and mobile phonesin diverse international contexts. Her work on media infrastructures brings together critical technological and political concerns through themes of... more
Data Centers are the physical locations of the internet and are experiencing rapid growth. They stand at the intersection of multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) due to their impact on human health and the... more
With the rapid growth of cloud computing, the number of data centers (DCs) continuously increases, leading to a high-energy consumption dilemma. Cooling, apart from IT equipment, represents the largest energy consumption in DCs. Passive... more
Cloud computing is a recently emerged fast-growing concept focused on effective and efficient utilization of computing, processing and storage capabilities. This new paradigm is based on providing IT-related capabilities as service hiding... more
The study presents an experimental investigation of a thermal energy storage vessel for load-shifting purposes. The new heat storage vessel is a plate-type heat exchanger unit with water as the working fluid and a phase change material... more
Currently the national project “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” is being implemented in Russia, providing for the digitalization of large cities, including the port city of Vladivostok. The article discusses some problems of... more
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