Workloads Suited for Calxeda's Architecture

	"Big Data" and Offline Analytics Applications designed to scale out with a high degree of parallelism – like Hadoop, MapReduce or other “Big Data” applications – experience optimized performance and utilization.			Web Applications Move your web-apps from underutilized x86-servers to a Calxeda-based cluster to realize instant energy savings.
	Middle-Tier Applications For shared-nothing, stateless, middle-tier servers, running distributed caching applications - like Memcached - bring the elasticity of the cloud into your data center to scale on demand.			Storage/File Serving Whether you are providing media streaming or content delivery services, storage requirements continue to increase. Calxeda-based systems can provide the performance you need at a fraction of the space and power of today’s traditional solutions.

Applications such as scalable analytics (e.g. Hadoop), static web hosting, lightweight web applications, applications written in Java or other interpretive languages are all good candidates. These applications workloads typically have a set of common characteristics such as:

1. Ability to scale out efficiently with multiple processors
2. Have relatively small memory requirements (< 4GB per process)
3. Have relatively light computational requirements per thread
4. Have high memory, I/O, and networking bandwidth requirements relative to CPU
5. Typically run at low utilization on standard processors

Some specific application that exhibit these traits include:

1. Map-Reduce Applications
2. Simple database searches on large in-memory databases
3. Memcached
4. Video Servers 
5. Big-Data-oriented search systems
6. HPC workloads that have high I/O requirements per computational load and that scale out well, such as Seismic processing.
7. Gaming
8. Financial Modeling for trading  and risk analysis systems

There are probably many more we will uncover as we work with partners, universities, and leading software developers around the world.  Let us know what you think!  Send us your ideas!  Become a Trailblazer and hop on board!