Abstract
Over the past decade, computer systems based largely on commodity processors from manufacturers such as AMD, Cyrix, and Intel, commodity operating systems such as Linux, Novell, and Windows, and industry-standard I/O protocols such as Ethernet, PCI, and SCSI, have rapidly moved upmarket into many mission- and performance-critical server applications. What were originally deployed as personal systems a decade ago have matured into oxymoron “PC servers” and are now being used for electronic commerce, web, file, and e-mail serving, enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, databases, messaging, telecommunications, storage, and a host of other server-class applications. The total worldwide server customer revenue for the year 2000 for 32-bit Intel Architecture-based servers was $26 billion, with an annual growth rate of 20%.
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