Disk-striping scalability in the Exedra media server

Stergios V. Anastasiadis; Kenneth C. Sevcik; Michael Stumm

doi:10.1117/12.410907

22 December 2000 Disk-striping scalability in the Exedra media server

Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Kenneth C. Sevcik, Michael Stumm

Proceedings Volume 4312, Multimedia Computing and Networking 2001; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.410907
Event: Photonics West 2001 - Electronic Imaging, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Scalable network servers are increasingly identified as a critical component in the exponential growth of the Internet. We focus on media servers for variable bit rate streams and study the scalability of alternative disk striping policies, previously known and new. In contrast to results of previous studies, we show that the highest sustained number of streams that can be supported increases almost linearly with the number of disks. We believe that important role for our conclusion play the performance evaluation method that we use and a new disk space allocation technique that we introduce. Also, with reasonable technological projections, our arguments remain valid into the foreseeable future.

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Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Kenneth C. Sevcik, and Michael Stumm "Disk-striping scalability in the Exedra media server", Proc. SPIE 4312, Multimedia Computing and Networking 2001, (22 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.410907

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