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This paper summarizes performance results of a systematic evaluation of the Open Software Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Cell Directory Service (CDS). The CDS is a distributed name database which is used to locate servers and objects within a DCE cell. We designed and built a systematic CDS performance test system and then characterized and projected the performance of important CDS operations with the primary focus on the RPC Name Service Independent (NSI) interface. These results should assist customer application modeling as well as CDS porting and performance tuning by developers using DCE. We believe CDS in its present form has performance tuning opportunities and we provide several recommendations for users of the CDS.
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Martinka, J., Friedrich, R., Friedenbach, P., Sienknecht, T. (1993). A performance study of the DCE 1.0.1 Cell Directory Service: Implications for application and tool programmers. In: Schill, A. (eds) DCE — The OSF Distributed Computing Environment Client/Server Model and Beyond. DCE 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 731. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57306-2_26
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