Communications of the ACM
The Influence of Scale on Distributed File System Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An empirical study of a wide-area distributed file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Scalable Consistency Protocols for Distributed Services
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Evaluating the Scalability of Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
The costs and limits of availability for replicated services
SOSP '01 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects
Globe: A Wide-Area Distributed System
IEEE Concurrency
Lazy Garbage Collection of Recovery State for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Shared Memory
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Bottlenecking in Client-Server Systems and Rendezvous Networks
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
How scalable is J2EE technology?
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Trading Replication Consistency for Performance and Availability: an Adaptive Approach
ICDCS '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Failover and takeover contingency mechanisms for network partition and node failure
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang workshop
Declarative distributed advertisement system for iDTV: an industrial experience
Proceedings of the 14th symposium on Principles and practice of declarative programming
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Scalability is an important issue in the construction of distributed systems. A number of theoretical and experimental studies have been made on scalability of distributed systems. However, they have been either studies on specific technologies or have studied scalability in isolation. The main conjecture of our work is that scalability must be perceived along with the related issues of availability, synchronization and consistency. In this context, we propose a scalability model which characterizes scalability as being dependent on these factors as well as the workload and faultload. The model is generic and can be used to compare scalability of similar systems. We illustrate this by a comparison between NFS and AFS, two well known distributed file systems. The model is also useful in identifying scalability bottlenecks in distributed systems. We have applied the model to optimize Virat, a wide-area shared object space that we have built.