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Abstract | ||
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We propose a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. Our approach does not require dealing with message-passing protocols -- a major complication in existing distributed systems. Instead, developers just design and manipulate data structures within our service called Sinfonia. Sinfonia keeps data for applications on a set of memory nodes, each exporting a linear address space. At the core of Sinfonia is a novel minitransaction primitive that enables efficient and consistent access to data, while hiding the complexities that arise from concurrency and failures. Using Sinfonia, we implemented two very different and complex applications in a few months: a cluster file system and a group communication service. Our implementations perform well and scale to hundreds of machines.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2009 | 10.1145/1629087.1629088 | Special Interest Group on Operating Systems |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
transactions,two-phase commit,scalability,shared memory,message-passing protocol,data structure,distributed systems,cluster file system,linear address space,new paradigm,complex application,major complication,consistent access,group communication service,memory node,fault tolerance,two phase commit,fault tolerant,message passing,distributed system,group communication | Address space,Two-phase commit protocol,File system,Shared memory,Computer science,Real-time computing,Shared resource,Data access,Message passing,Distributed computing,Scalability | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
27 | 3 | 0163-5980 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
173 | 8.57 | 30 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera | 1 | 2519 | 153.60 |
| Arif Merchant | 2 | 1684 | 133.81 |
| Mehul A. Shah | 3 | 3547 | 317.66 |
| Alistair Veitch | 4 | 474 | 28.67 |
| Christos Karamanolis | 5 | 356 | 20.14 |