examples of "high throughput" IdP instances

[Tom Scavo]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Nate Klingenstein <ndk at internet2.edu> wrote:
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> You can find some specific examples here:
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> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPProdLoadTestResults

Oh, I forgot about that wiki page. I will focus on that in my
presentation so if folks would add an entry to the table on that page,
that would be great.

> With 7 c1.medium AWS nodes and 2 x1.large nodes, and some optimization with stateless clustering, I was able to achieve  around 1000 assertions sent in response per second with a directory of a million users.  This was with 2.4.0.

Impressive. May I ask why there's a mixture of medium and large nodes?

Thanks,

Tom