Elastic Configuration Maintenance via a Parsimonious Speculating Snapshot Solution

Eli Gafni (1) , Dahlia Malkhi (2)

1 UCLA - Computer Science Department [Los Angeles]
2 VMware

In order to provide dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed service, we extract a fundamental new task SpSn. This new task facilitates a consensus-free coordination among clients on incorporating changes to the set of servers they all access, and through which they negotiate the changes. The danger is of course that when transitioning from one configuration to the other, the system might break up isolating the clients into several groups that cannot communicate with each other.

Domains: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing [cs.DC]

Eli Gafni, Dahlia Malkhi. Elastic Configuration Maintenance via a Parsimonious Speculating Snapshot Solution. DISC 2015, Toshimitsu Masuzawa; Koichi Wada, Oct 2015, Tokyo, France. ⟨10.1007/978-3-662-48653-5_10⟩. ⟨hal-01206154⟩