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USENIX Annual Technical Conference (NO 98), 1998
Abstract
High-Performance Caching With The Lava Hit-Server
Jochen Liedtke, Vsevolod Panteleenko, Trent Jaeger, and Nayeem Islam
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Abstract
With the development of new client-server computing models,
such as thin clients and network computers, the performance of
servers becomes a bottleneck. In these models, servers support a
large number of clients. They download significant amounts of
data to their clients in the form of graphics, executables (e.g.,
applets), and video. We present an architecture for building
high-performance server systems that can efficiently serve large
local clusters of NCs or other clients. The key component in our
architecture is a generic cache module that is designed to fully
utilize available bus bandwidth. Our experiments show that such a
server system can achieve throughput rates of up to 36,000
transactions per second. We detail the design and implementation
of the generic cache component, describe its use in the
implementation of a sample server system, and show how the
architecture can be scaled.
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