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author | Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org> | 2022-06-15 20:21:23 +0200 |
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committer | Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org> | 2022-06-15 20:21:23 +0200 |
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diff --git a/static/papers/boss2022thesis.pdf b/static/papers/boss2022thesis.pdf Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 00000000..d9f94c58 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/papers/boss2022thesis.pdf diff --git a/template/news/2022-06.html.j2 b/template/news/2022-06.html.j2 index 30353cb1..701f2acc 100644 --- a/template/news/2022-06.html.j2 +++ b/template/news/2022-06.html.j2 @@ -25,20 +25,20 @@ supported by the Next Generation Internet initiative’s <a href="https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/fed4fire/">NGI Fed4Fire+</a> program. <br> The primary goal of this study was to evaluate the scalability of GNU Taler in a real-world -scenario. That is, moving away from the loopback system to a distributed network and iden- -tifying improvement opportunities therein to analyze and improve performance. While the -basic framework was already known from the previous study, this work focuses on extend- -ing the framework and making further improvements to GNU Taler. This includes, among +scenario. That is, moving away from the loopback system to a distributed network and identifying +improvement opportunities therein to analyze and improve performance. While the +basic framework was already known from the previous study, this work focuses on extending +the framework and making further improvements to GNU Taler. This includes, among other things, the horizontal distribution of the PostgreSQL database. <br> We identified and fixed several bottlenecks in the GNU Taler software. We parallelized the -execution of the cryptographic frontend, leaving the PostgreSQL database as the natural bot- -tleneck. Here, we optimized queries and modified the schema to enable table partitioning. -The scalability demonstrated in our experiments shows that Taler is very capable of pro- -cessing enough transactions per second to be considered an acceptable payment system. +execution of the cryptographic frontend, leaving the PostgreSQL database as the natural bottleneck. +Here, we optimized queries and modified the schema to enable table partitioning. +The scalability demonstrated in our experiments shows that Taler is very capable of processing +enough transactions per second to be considered an acceptable payment system. Throughout this work, we were able to increase the performance of Taler by a factor of 95, -from about 300 to 28.5k transactions per second, showing that Central Bank Digital Curren- -cies based on Taler would require only a few exchanges per continent. +from about 300 to 28.5k transactions per second, showing that Central Bank Digital Currencies +based on Taler would require only a few exchanges per continent. </p> <h4>Download links</h4> <ul> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ langs_full: meetingnotes: newsposts: - page: 2022-06.html - date: 2022-06-25 + date: 2022-06-16 title: "GNU Taler Scalability" - page: 2022-05.html date: 2022-05-25 |