CMU-CS-08-158 Computer Science Department School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Improving the Deployability of Diamond Adam Wolbach September 2008 Masters Thesis
This document describes three engineering contributions made to Diamond, a system for discard-based search, to improve its portability and maintainability, and add new functionality. First, core engineering work on Diamond's RPC and content management subsystems improves the system's maintainability. Secondly, a new mechanism supports "scoping" a Diamond search through the use of external metadata sources. Scoping selects a subset of objects to perform content-based search on by executing a query on an external metadata source related to the data. After query execution, the scope is set for all subsequent searches performed by Diamond applications. The final contribution is Kimberley, a system that enables mobile application use by leveraging virtual machine technology. Kimberley separates application state from a base virtual machine by differencing the VM before and after application customization. The much smaller application state can be carried with the user and quickly applied in a mobile setting to provision infrastructure hardware. Experiments confirm that the startup and teardown delays experienced by a Kimberley user are acceptable for mobile usage scenarios. 78 pages
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