Adaptive TTL schemes for load balancing of distributed Web servers
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review - Special issue on multimedia storage systems
Admission control and dynamic adaptation for a proportional-delay diffserv-enabled web server
SIGMETRICS '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
The Quadrics Network (QsNet): High-Performance Clustering Technology
HOTI '01 Proceedings of the The Ninth Symposium on High Performance Interconnects
User-Level Communication in Cluster-Based Servers
HPCA '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
A Feedback Control Approach for Guaranteeing Relative Delays in Web Servers
RTAS '01 Proceedings of the Seventh Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '01)
Automated Cluster-Based Web Service Performance Tuning
HPDC '04 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Optimizing 10-Gigabit Ethernet for Networks of Workstations, Clusters, and Grids: A Case Study
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Integrated resource management for cluster-based internet services
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Performance Characterization of a 10-Gigabit Ethernet TOE
HOTI '05 Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects
Sockets Direct Protocol over InfiniBand in clusters: is it beneficial?
ISPASS '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software
CCGRID '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid - Volume 01
CSP: a novel system architecture for scalable internet and communication services
USITS'01 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 3
ISPASS '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 2005
Active cache: caching dynamic contents on the Web
Middleware '98 Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
Web server support for tiered services
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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Current data-centers rely on TCP/IP over Fast- and Gigabit-Ethernet for data communication even within the cluster environment for costeffective designs, thus limiting their maximum capacity. Together with raw performance, such data-centers also lack in efficient support for intelligent services, such as requirements for caching documents, managing limited physical resources, load-balancing, controlling overload scenarios, and prioritization and QoS mechanisms, that are becoming a common requirement today. On the other hand, the System Area Network (SAN) technology is making rapid advances during the recent years. Besides high performance, these modern interconnects are providing a range of novel features and their support in hardware (e.g., RDMA, atomic operations, QoS support). In this paper, we address the capabilities of these current generation SAN technologies in addressing the limitations of existing data-centers. Specifically, we present a novel framework comprising of three layers (communication protocol support, data-center service primitives and advanced data-center services) that work together to tackle the issues associated with existing data-centers. We also present preliminary results in the various aspects of the framework, which demonstrate close to an order of magnitude performance benefits achievable by our framework as compared to existing data-centers in several cases.