A Brief History of Warehouse-Scale Computing
A Brief History of Warehouse-Scale Computing
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仓库规模计算简史
作者：
L. Barroso
计算机科学的实践对于我们许多人来说，我们最早的专业模式来自于观察我们父母的工作方式。我父亲是里约热内卢公立医院的一名外科医生，我观察他的情况就是这样。在他的整个职业生涯中，他不断研究新的治疗方法，收集案例研究，参加医学会议并发表论文，尽管他从未担任过学术或研究职位。他致力于医学实践，但总是抽出时间来帮助推进他的专业领域的知识。在没有真正意识到这一点的情况下，我最终追随父亲的道路，自己也成为了一名修行者。作为一名从业者，我的同行评议出版物名单明显短于该奖项的大多数前获奖者，但每次我有一些有价值的东西与学术界分享，我都感到受到我们顶级研究会议的欢迎，这些文章往往受到好评。像我这样的从业者倾向于用过去式发表论文，报告已经实施并作为产品推出的想法。从业者可以通过回顾并向我们展示这些想法在实际应用中是如何发挥（或不发挥）的来为我们的社区做出贡献。商业上的成功或失败可以客观地判断研究思想的价值，即使有时是残酷的。在给我这个奖项时，IEEE计算机协会和ACM强调了我们领域从业者的作用。现在，由于这个奖项是关于仓库规模计算的实践，我应该立即开始。
THE PRACTICE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE For many of us our earliest models of professionalism come from observing our parents’ approach to their work. That was the case for me observing my father, a surgeon working in public hospitals in Rio de Janeiro. Throughout his career, he was continually investigating new treatments, collecting case studies, participating and publishing in medical conferences, despite never having held an academic or research position. He was dedicated to the practice of medicine but always made time to help advance knowledge in his area of expertise. Without really being aware of it, I ended up following my father’s path and became a practitioner myself. As a practitioner, my list of peer-reviewed publications is notably shorter than most of the previous winners of this award, but every time I had something valuable to share with the academic community, I felt welcomed by our top research conferences, and those articles tended to be well received. Practitioners like myself tend to publish papers in the past tense, reporting on ideas that have been implemented and launched as products. Practitioners can contribute to our community by looking back and showing us how those ideas played out (or not) in practical applications. Commercial success or the lack thereof can be an objective judge of the merits of research ideas; even if cruelly so at times. In giving me this award, the IEEE Computer Society and ACM are highlighting the role of practitioners in our field. Now, as this award is about the practice of warehouse-scale computing, I should get to that with no further delay.