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This chapter chronicles the 25-year evolution of Warehouse-Scale Computing (WSC), emphasizing the journey from its initial niche application in web search to its current status as the backbone of hyperscale applications and cloud platforms. We present our historical retrospective in five epochs, each highlighting key developments in WSC. In the second part of the chapter, we distill key lessons from this journey. We conclude with a discussion of future opportunities including the next wave of scale, new accelerators, software-defined hardware, and the room for optimization at higher levels of the software stack. We also highlight the importance of agility and modularity, the continued emphasis on trusted computing (reliability, privacy, security, sovereignty), sustainability, and the disruptive potential of AI for WSC design.

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A Twenty Five Year WSC Journey

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  • 发表日期：

    2026年

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  • Luiz André Barroso,
  • Urs Hölzle,
  • Parthasarathy Ranganathan

摘要

This chapter chronicles the 25-year evolution of Warehouse-Scale Computing (WSC), emphasizing the journey from its initial niche application in web search to its current status as the backbone of hyperscale applications and cloud platforms. We present our historical retrospective in five epochs, each highlighting key developments in WSC. In the second part of the chapter, we distill key lessons from this journey. We conclude with a discussion of future opportunities including the next wave of scale, new accelerators, software-defined hardware, and the room for optimization at higher levels of the software stack. We also highlight the importance of agility and modularity, the continued emphasis on trusted computing (reliability, privacy, security, sovereignty), sustainability, and the disruptive potential of AI for WSC design.