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Over the years, several innovations have emerged to provide greater processing capacity at a lower cost. Among these new technologies, distributed computing and its applications such as server clustering can be highlighted, which despite allowing a scalar increase in productivity, introduced new difficulties such as the management of several servers and the guarantee that they have balanced performances. Load scaler systems have been targets of studies for decades, and despite being found in the form of specialized equipment or as software components, no architectural evaluations of this type of system have been found, even because the fact that they are software systems is often ignored, being considered only as resources or architectural tactics used to improve performance and increase availability. The use of architectural techniques, in a practical example of a platform little studied in academia, will allow the documentation of the steps that can be reused in similar environments.
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The Author is a Support Analyst with 29 years of experience in large IBM operating systems. Developer of performance improvement solutions and tools in general. Extensive experience in Assembler programming as well as IBM products in general.
