This seems quite similar to the FAWN project at CMU. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fawnproj/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fawnproj/ The idea is similar: if IO is the bottle

This seems quite similar to the FAWN project at CMU. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fawnproj/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fawnproj/ The idea is similar: if IO is the bottleneck, instead of scaling up IO, scale down the CPU power.