SPACE: A lightweight collaborative caching for clusters

In this paper, we introduce Systematic P2P Aided Cache Enhancement or SPACE, a new collaboration scheme among clients in a computer cluster of a high performance computing facility to share their caches with each other. The collaboration is achieved in a distributed manner, and is designed based on peerto-peer computing model. The objective is to provide (1) a decentralized solution, and (2) a near optimal performance with reasonably low overhead. Simulation results are given to demonstrate the performance of the proposed scheme. In addition, the results show that SPACE evenly distributes work loads among participators, and entirely eliminates any requirement of a central cache manager. Keywords Cluster computing · Caching · Collaborative computing · Filesystem

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: PPNA
• Authors: Mohammad Mursalin Akon, Mohammad Towhidul Islam, Xuemin Shen, Ajit Singh
• Keywords: Central Cache Manager, Peerto-peer Computing Model, Performance Computing Facility, PPNA 2010