Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:1771834, abstract = {We propose a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. Our approach does not require dealing with message-passing protocols -- a major complication in existing distributed systems. Instead, developers just design and manipulate data structures within our service called Sinfonia. Sinfonia keeps data for applications on a set of memory nodes, each exporting a linear address space. At the core of Sinfonia is a novel minitransaction primitive that enables efficient and consistent access to data, while hiding the complexities that arise from concurrency and failures. Using Sinfonia, we implemented two very different and complex applications in a few months: a cluster file system and a group communication service. Our implementations perform well and scale to hundreds of machines.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Aguilera, Marcos K. and Merchant, Arif and Shah, Mehul and Veitch, Alistair and Karamanolis, Christos}, booktitle = {SOSP '07: Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles}, citeulike-article-id = {1771834}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1294278}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1294261.1294278}, doi = {10.1145/1294261.1294278}, isbn = {978-1-59593-591-5}, keywords = {distributed, transaction}, location = {Stevenson, Washington, USA}, pages = {159--174}, posted-at = {2008-10-06 05:27:38}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1294261.1294278}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1771834 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1771834 N2 - We propose a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. Our approach does not require dealing with message-passing protocols -- a major complication in existing distributed systems. Instead, developers just design and manipulate data structures within our service called Sinfonia. Sinfonia keeps data for applications on a set of memory nodes, each exporting a linear address space. At the core of Sinfonia is a novel minitransaction primitive that enables efficient and consistent access to data, while hiding the complexities that arise from concurrency and failures. Using Sinfonia, we implemented two very different and complex applications in a few months: a cluster file system and a group communication service. Our implementations perform well and scale to hundreds of machines. CY - Stevenson, Washington, USA SN - 978-1-59593-591-5 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 174 TI - Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems PB - ACM T2 - SOSP '07: Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles SP - 159 KW - distributed KW - transaction AU - Aguilera, Marcos AU - Merchant, Arif AU - Shah, Mehul AU - Veitch, Alistair AU - Karamanolis, Christos PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1294261.1294278 ER -