The Data Center as a Computer
Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Fourth Edition
By Luiz André Barroso, Urs Hölzle, and Parthasarathy Ranganathan
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About the Authors
Meet the engineers behind "The Datacenter as a Computer".
Luiz André Barroso
Luiz André Barroso (1964-2023) was a Google Fellow and Vice President of Engineering, known for his seminal work on computing. He was a key figure in designing Google's first custom-built servers and datacenters, and a Fellow of the ACM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Urs Hölzle
Urs Hölzle served as Google's first VP of Engineering and led the development of Google's infrastructure until 2023 as an SVP of Infrastructure.Today he is a Google Fellow. He is also a Fellow of the ACM and AAAS, a member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and serves on the board of the US World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Parthasarathy Ranganathan
Parthasarathy Ranganathan is an VP of Engineering and a Technical Fellow at Google where he designs their next-generation systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM and was named a top-15 enterprise technology rockstar by Business Insider.