Scalability of the Microsoft Cluster Service (1998)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Windows NT Symposium |
| Citations: | 20 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Vogels98scalabilityof,
author = {Werner Vogels and Dan Dumitriu and Ashutosh Agrawal and Teck Chia and Katherine Guo and Werner Vogels and Dan Dumitriu and Ashutosh Agrawal and Teck Chia and Katherine Guo},
title = {Scalability of the Microsoft Cluster Service},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Windows NT Symposium},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
An important argument for the introduction of software managed clusters is that of scale: By constructing the cluster out of commodity compute elements, one can, by simply adding new elements, improve the reliability of the overall system in terms of performance and in availability. The limits to how far such a cluster can be scaled seems to be dependent on the scalability of its management software, which in its core has a collection of distributed algorithms to guarantee the correct operation of the cluster. The complexity of these algorithms makes them a vulnerable component of the system in terms of their impact on the overall scalability of the system. This paper examines two of the distributed components
