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Sinfonia: A New Paradigm for Building Scalable Distributed Systems
Overview This paper proposes a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. One's 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 the 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, the paper implemented two very different and complex applications in a few months: a cluster file system and a group communication service.
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery | File Format | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Published | October 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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