VACS:Projects:Advanced:W4C

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Below is a new computer architecture that is intended to supersede the performance of high end systems sold by big companies (Sun, [1], ...). Its novel architecture will bring you the performance, scalability and high availability (7 nines!!!).

Overview

W4C Architecture

The ADSL connector directly connects to your Internet provider and supports up to 10Gb of sustained bandwith. To protect the solution a high performance firewall will filter the requests and drop the packets in a huge flushing pipe. The performance of the firewall is directly proportional to the square root of the pipe's diameter. A 110mm pipe will be enough to handle a 150Gb of dropped traffic (best than most Cisco's firewall solutions).

The firewall connects to a yet modern and high performance connector architecture that redirects the request to the web server. This connector architecture is faster than any enterprise solutions that exists on the market. It achieve more than 100K requests per second and can be extended by adding connectors in parallel (W4C farms).

Finally, the W4C server's output is connected to a patented packet cleaner. The packet cleaner washes the packet so that it appears dry and clean for transportation by the final pipe.