Switch-off: Preliminary CFP

From: matthew j weaver (weaver@measurement-factory.com)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 17:51:24 MDT


Hi there,

        After many months of delays and preparation, we are finally
ready for the first L4/7 load balancing switch-off. Preliminary Call
for Participation and a result teaser are now available at

        http://switchoff.measurement-factory.com/

For those of you who are new to the terminology, "switch-off" is the
same as "bake-off", except that the "switch-off" term is not
trademarked by Pillsbury. The Measurement Factory has been executing a
series of Web caching bake-offs (cache-offs) using Web Polygraph
benchmark, and we are now planning the same kind of public
all-under-one-roof competitions for various load balancing solutions.

We hope that our switch-off results and analysis will be useful
comparison tool for the load balancing crowd. As usual, free public
tools and community-supported workloads will be used to drive the
tests.

If you want to participate or give feedback, please e-mail us.
If you want a certain product to be represented, make sure to e-mail
the vendor (and cc us)!

Thanks,

matthew



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