GigaSpaces have added Memcached protocol support in version 7.1 of GigaSpaces XAP. memcached is a popular caching protocol and server. The integration provided allows to use GigaSpaces as a memcached server (talking the memcached protocol) enhancing the memcached to provide high availability, write behind, and other features that are provided by GigaSpaces XAP.
Further details can [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing on Sep 9th, 2009
Moxi(memcached proxy) enables you to scale up / down your memcached layer without losing cached items:
Moxi - Memcached Proxy
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Posted in HPC on Jul 5th, 2009
Perlbal from Djanga Interactive looks interesting. It’s a Perl-based reverse proxy load balancer and web server. It processes hundreds of millions of requests a day just for LiveJournal, Vox and TypePad and dozens of other “Web 2.0″ applications.
Zvolkov post a nice tutorial on using MemCached with nHibernate.
Greg Luck’s old performance comparison post still a nice overview of MemCached V EHCache performance.
Nice overview of Couchdb, Tyrant, [...]
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Informative comparison of Memcached (+MemCached .Net lib) V Velocity which looks at features and performance:
Features
No question here, Velocity has it licked. Memcached offers you, errr, ‘Put’ and ‘Get’ pretty much. Velocity gives you such lovelies as:
Cache Invalidation (things in SQL changing can expire the cache)
Cache Groups (so you can specify different policies for different types of [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing, Uncategorized on Jun 7th, 2009
There is a nice video from the guys at Facebook no how they tweaked and added to Facebook to enable this hugely popular site to scale which you can access here.
A very nice overview and introduction to MemCached here with examples in different languages for the programmer.
A guide with code about using Memcached as singleton with [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on May 21st, 2009
Memcached now has persistent queues via 0.6 of the Gearman C server and library. The persistent queue allows background jobs to be stored via the pluggable module, so if the job server crashes or is shutdown, the queue module can repopulate the job server with any jobs that were not yet complete.
Sun scale Memcached to 500K operations [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 25th, 2009
Gear6 has announced the launch of its new Web Cache product, a hardware appliance that is built around memcached. The product leverages a combination of DRAM and Flash memory to deliver significantly higher density than conventional memcached solutions. It can accommodate up to 320GB in a 1U form factor.
You can find the technical specifications here.
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 22nd, 2009
You can now buy the TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing on Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/cpavj2
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