A Selection of 25 Top Papers for 25 Years of WSC
摘要
This chapter presents our selection of 25 top papers for 25 years of Warehouse-Scale Computing (WSC) at Google. The papers cover a range of topics crucial to WSC, including early search architecture, cluster management, file systems, data processing, distributed storage, profiling, networking, energy efficiency, and specialized hardware like TPUs and VCUs. These diverse papers present a nice view on the evolution of WSC from initial prototypes to sophisticated, globally-distributed systems, highlighting innovations that have significantly impacted the industry. Each paper is briefly summarized, with both a discussion of the key contributions of the paper and a note on why we selected this for our list.