NinjaMail: the design of a high-performance clustered, distributede-mail system
von Behren, J.R.; Czerwinski, S.; Joseph, A.D.; Brewer, E.A.; Kubiatowicz, J.
Parallel Processing, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 International Workshops on
Volume , Issue , 2000 Page(s):151 - 158
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICPPW.2000.869099
Summary:In today's Internet era, electronic mail is replacing telephony
and postal mail as the primary means of communication for hundreds of
millions of individuals. Free e-mail services, such as Microsoft's
Hotmail and Yahoo's Yahoo Mail, each have tens of millions of
subscribers. However, these and other current e-mail systems
unfortunately are nor capable of handling the scale of Internet e-mail
use, while still providing reliable, high performance and feature-rich
services to users. This limitation is the result both of suboptimal use
of cluster computing resources, and of highly variable performance of
wide-area connections over the Internet. This paper presents NinjaMail,
a novel geographically distributed, cluster-based e-mail system built on
top of UC Berkeley's Ninja cluster architecture and OceanStore wide-area
data storage architecture. NinjaMail is unique in that it uses a
collection of clusters distributed through the wide-area to provide
users with highly available, scalable and feature-rich services via a
wide variety of access methods
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