The growth of the Internet has enabled users to access information stored at geographically distributed sites. The non-uniformity of information access, however, creates hot-spots of network and server load, which significantly increase the latency for information access.

The Trellis project addresses the scalability requirements of emerging distributed applications by developing: (1) scalable servers that can support a large number of connections and I/O requests while guaranteeing data availability, and (2) scalable distributed cache architecture.