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Manageability availability and performance in Porcupine: a highly scalable cluster-based mail service


Author(s) : Henry M. Levy Brian N. Bershad Yasushi Saito, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1999
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : The growth of the Internet has led to the need for highly scalable and highly available services. This paper describes the Porcupine scalable electronic mail service. Porcupine achieves scalability by clustering many small machines (PCs), enabling them to work together in an efficient manner. In this section, we describe system requirements for Porcupine,