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The document discusses replication control in distributed computing, highlighting its importance for fault tolerance, load balancing, and high availability. It outlines various types of replication, control techniques, and consistency models, along with protocols like Paxos and Raft. Additionally, it addresses challenges such as network partitions and latency, emphasizing the need for effective replication strategies to ensure system reliability and performance.

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Replication Control Distributed Computing With Diagrams

The document discusses replication control in distributed computing, highlighting its importance for fault tolerance, load balancing, and high availability. It outlines various types of replication, control techniques, and consistency models, along with protocols like Paxos and Raft. Additionally, it addresses challenges such as network partitions and latency, emphasizing the need for effective replication strategies to ensure system reliability and performance.

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Assignment: Replication Control in Distributed Computing

1. Introduction

Distributed Computing involves multiple computers working together over a network to achieve a
common goal. Replication means creating copies of data, processes, or services to enhance
reliability, availability, and performance. Replication Control refers to managing these replicas to
ensure correctness and consistency.

2. Importance of Replication in Distributed Computing

- Fault Tolerance: Ensures system reliability even if some nodes fail.


- Load Balancing: Distributes workloads across multiple nodes.
- Data Locality: Places data closer to where it's needed, reducing latency.
- High Availability: Maintains system uptime during failures.

3. Types of Replication

- Data Replication: Duplicating data across multiple nodes.


- Process Replication: Running multiple instances of processes for reliability.
- State Machine Replication: Ensuring all replicas process the same sequence of operations.

4. Replication Control Techniques

- Active Replication: All replicas process the same requests simultaneously.


- Passive Replication: A primary replica processes requests, and updates are sent to backups.
- Quorum-Based Replication: Operations require a majority agreement among replicas.

5. Consistency Models

- Strong Consistency: All replicas reflect the same data at all times.
- Eventual Consistency: Replicas converge to the same data over time.
- Causal Consistency: Preserves the order of causally related operations.

6. Replication Control Protocols

- Paxos: A consensus algorithm ensuring agreement among distributed systems.


- Raft: Simplifies consensus by electing a leader to manage log replication.
- Gossip Protocols: Nodes periodically exchange information to achieve consistency.
7.1 Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

Architecture Overview:
- NameNode: Manages metadata and namespace.
- DataNodes: Store actual data blocks.

Replication Mechanism:
- Default replication factor is 3.
- Blocks are replicated across different DataNodes and racks.

Block Diagram (view online): https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/images/hdfsarchitecture.gif

7.2 Google File System (GFS)

Architecture Overview:
- Master Server: Manages metadata and chunk locations.
- ChunkServers: Store data chunks.

Replication Mechanism:
- Each chunk is replicated across multiple ChunkServers.
- One replica is designated as primary.

Block Diagram (view online): https://research.google.com/archive/gfs-sosp2003-fig3.png

8. Challenges in Replication Control

- Network Partitions: Can lead to inconsistent data.


- Latency: Delays in synchronizing replicas.
- Conflict Resolution: Managing divergent updates across replicas.

9. Conclusion

Replication control is vital in distributed computing to ensure data reliability, availability, and
consistency. By implementing effective replication strategies, systems can achieve high
performance and resilience.

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