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Exalt: Empowering Researchers to Evaluate Large-Scale Storage Systems
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You are not authorized to post comments.Yang Wang, Manos Kapritsos, Lara Schmidt, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Mike Dahlin, The University of Texas at Austin
This paper presents Exalt, a library that gives back to researchers the ability to test the scalability of today’s large storage systems. To that end, we introduce Tardis, a data representation scheme that allows data to be identified and efficiently compressed even at low-level storage layers that are not aware of the semantics and formatting used by higher levels of the system. This compression enables a high degree of node colocation, which makes it possible to run large-scale experiments on as few as a hundred machines. Our experience with HDFS and HBase shows that, by allowing us to run the real system code at an unprecedented scale, Exalt can help identify scalability problems that are not observable at lower scales: in particular, Exalt helped us pinpoint and resolve issues in HDFS that improved its aggregate throughput by an order of magnitude.
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author = {Yang Wang and Manos Kapritsos and Lara Schmidt and Lorenzo Alvisi and Mike Dahlin},
title = {Exalt: Empowering Researchers to Evaluate {Large-Scale} Storage Systems},
booktitle = {11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 14)},
year = {2014},
isbn = {978-1-931971-09-6},
address = {Seattle, WA},
pages = {129--141},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/wang_yang},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr
}
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