A LARGE-SCALE DATA CENTER BASED ON A CONTIGUOUS NETWORK

摘要

A large-scale data center is based on orthogonal connectivity of a distributedsingle-stageconnector, having a large number of disjoint primary switches, to a largenumber of access nodesand a large number of secondary switches. The secondary switches are coupledto a large numberof servers forming a server farm. The orthogonal-connectivity scheme yields acontiguousnetwork providing single-hop paths from each access node to each other accessnode, from eachsecondary switch to each other secondary switch, from each access node to eachsecondaryswitch, and from each secondary switch to each access node.