Khnum is the applications and data management component of
Oceano, a dynamically scalable hosting infrastructure for e-business
computing utilities. Oceano dynamically adjusts the resources
allocated to each domain to its actual demands, enabling multi-
enterprise hosting on a collection of shared resources. The
customer's data (including application binaries) is kept in a shared
file system (AFS), such that installation and configuration of
applications is done off-line. Application priming is done by
mapping a remote shared subtree (or several) to the local file
systems. Khnum supports a multicast cache prefetching model used to
initialize the caches and prime the servers. We present experimental
results which indicate that Khnum can significantly improve the
scalability of such computing server farms
By: Alain Azagury, German Goldszdmidt, Yair Koren, Benny Rochwerger, Arie Tal
Published in: TR88.389 in 2001
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