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Chapter 10
Conclusion
This chapter gives a summary of the work conducted and the conclusions
that can be drawn from this dissertation. It also provides a discussion of the
areas of further research.
10.1 Summary
This dissertation focused on the performance bottlenecks that are associated
with reliable large scale unicast data replication over the Internet.
Appendix A gives a broad overview of the performance of various components
required for data replication. In terms of data storage, read and write
performance can be improved with the combination of hardware multiplexing
with RAID solutions and tuning of kernel parameters. For the transport
of data between disparate computers, Network interface Cards at speeds of
10Gb/sec are investigated. However, PCI-X and computational processing
are discovered to be the primary bottlenecks at such speeds on server class
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