The primary goal of this research is to improve the scalability and robustness of the Linux operating system to support greater network server workloads more reliably. We are specifically interested in single-system scalability, performance, and reliability of network server infrastructure products running on Linux, such as LDAP directory servers, IMAP electronic mail servers, and web servers, among others. Summary We focused on building our web server test harness during the last two months. We've been joined by new staff and new sponsors. We're continuing to reach out to potential sponsors.
Work continues on long-term projects.
Milestones Intel delivered a four CPU SC450NX server for use in our test harness. We intend to add disks and high-bandwidth networking to support RAID and gigabit networking capability. Andy continues to develop an NFSv4 implementation, now based on the Linux 2.2.10 NFSv3 implementation. Compound RPC is working, and enough RPCs have been implemented that it is possible to mount via the NFSv4 protocol, sans mountd. We are hoping to get both patches into the Linux kernel before 2.4 is released.