Location based placement of whole distributed systems

The high bandwidth and low latency of the modern internet has made possible the deployment of distributed computing platforms. The XenoServer platform provides a distributed computing platform open to all and presents three major new challenges for resource discovery: Firstly, network location is key for effectively provisioning services, to mitigate against high-latency, high-load or component failure. Secondly, many services require a presence on several servers, with inter-related requirements. Finally, as the platform is open with respect to users and servers, large numbers of queries and updates are expected. To address these requirements we introduce and evaluate XenoSearch, a new distributed service for selecting the machines to host components of multi-node distributed systems and which is uniquely able to express and efficiently answer complex queries with inter-related location constraints. We demonstrate that XenoSearch represents a trade-off between accuracy and query tim...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CONEXT
• Authors: David Spence, Jon Crowcroft, Steven Hand, Timothy L. Harris
• Keywords: Computer Networks, CONEXT 2005, Distributed Computing Platform, Distributed Service, Multi-node Distributed Systems