Scalable Internet Servers: Issues and Challenges Krishna Kant Intel Corporation* Prasant Mohapatra M i c h i g a n state University t As a point of reference to this discussion, let us consider some numbers. As reported by several PAWS-2000 panelists, There has been an exponential growth in the Internet usage, the web-site hit rate at major events is already approaching and a lot of it is attributed to the increasing popularity of 1 million per minute. As Internet usage skyrockets throughthe World Wide Web (WWW). This increasing demand over- out the world, this number could easily increase by more than burdens the bandwidth requirement in the Internet, particu- an order of magnitude for major word-wide events such as larly at the edges and the last-mile. Similarly, the process- the Olympics. However, the hit count doesn't tell the entire ing demand and resource management for Internet applica- story - - as the richness, perceptual quality, dynamism, and tions have been increasing the load on Internet servers (web security requirements of the content increase, the size of the servers, proxy/caching servers, firewalls, etc.) rapidly. Evolv- web-pages and the processing time required to render them ing applications like continuous
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