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    Evaluating Cluster-Based Network Servers

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    In this paper we use analytic modeling and simulation to evaluate network servers implemented on clusters of workstations. More specifically, we model the potential benefits of locality-conscious request distribution within the cluster and evaluate the performance of a cluster-based server (called L2S) we designed in light of our experience with the model. Our most important modeling results show that locality-conscious distribution on a 16-node cluster can increaseserverthroughputwith respectto a locality-oblivious server by up to 7-fold, depending on the average size of the files requested and on the size of the server's working set. Our simulation results demonstrate that L2S achieves throughput that is within 22% of the full potential of locality-conscious distribution on 16 nodes, outperforming and significantly outscaling the best-known localityconscious server. Based on our results and on the fact that the files serviced by network servers are becoming larger and more numerous, ..
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