Using the BonFIRE Testbed for Testing Scalability of the KOPI Service

The KOPI Online Plagiarism Search Portal announced the detection of cross-language or translational plagiarism in 2011. This new feature requires more data intensive processing than the traditional monolingual plagiarism search (offered since 2004). As our service suffered from performance problems, we sought a platform for trying and testing automated scaling solutions applied on our service. Within the BonFIRE open call experiment we successfully implemented and analysed our elastic scaling solutions for KOPI