Choosing the best storage system for video service
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Multimedia
Computer architecture (2nd ed.): a quantitative approach
Computer architecture (2nd ed.): a quantitative approach
Multimedia servers: applications, environments, and design
Multimedia servers: applications, environments, and design
Multimedia Information Storage and Management
Multimedia Information Storage and Management
Evaluating the Scalability of Distributed Systems
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
Video server on an ATM connected cluster of workstations
SCCC '97 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society
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Video-on-demand (VoD) applications require architectures which are scalable over a wide range of capacity. Two of the most promising architectures for VoD are massively parallel symmetrical computers based on distributed memory (MPP) and clusters of workstations interconnected by a high-performance network. The work described here investigates the scalability of a prototype cluster architecture and compares it with a commercially available hypercube MPP system. Measurement experiments using emulated workloads were carried out for increasing loads, and the effects on capacity of encoding-mode and user interactions were explored. Static analysis, supported by simulation results was used to make projections over a range of configurations and technology assumptions. Sample results are presented which chart scalability on two hierarchic levels.