John Hennessy: What Should the “New World” Focus Be?

• Availability

  • Both appliance & service

• Maintainability

  • Two functions:

    • Enhancing availability by preventing failure
    • Ease of SW and HW upgrades

• Scalability

  • Especially of service

• Cost

  • per device and per service transaction

• Performance

  • Remains important, but its not SPECint

“Back to the Future:

Time to Return to Longstanding

Problems in Computer Systems?”

Keynote address,

FCRC,

May 1999

John Hennessy

Stanford

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