Everything about Scalability

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ScalabilityA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Techno-economic analysis of hydrogen production: Costs, policies, and scalability in the transition to net-zeroInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Designing and Developing Scalable IP NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: NAMD2: Greater Scalability for Parallel Molecular DynamicsCited 2,220 times
5. Go sideways: Computer clusterA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Database scalabilityA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• NAMD2: Greater Scalability for Parallel Molecular Dynamics

  Laxmikant Kalé, Robert Skeel, Milind Bhandarkar · 1999 · Journal of Computational Physics · 2,220 citations

• Homogenous 96-Plex PEA Immunoassay Exhibiting High Sensitivity, Specificity, and Excellent Scalability

  Erika Assarsson, Martin Lundberg, Göran Holmquist · 2014 · PLoS ONE · 1,822 citations

• Bias, robustness and scalability in single-cell differential expression analysis

  Charlotte Soneson, Mark D Robinson · 2018 · Nature Methods · 811 citations

• Addressing the terawatt challenge: scalability in the supply of chemical elements for renewable energy

  Peter C. K. Vesborg, Thomas F. Jaramillo · 2012 · RSC Advances · 776 citations

• Robustness, scalability, and integration of a wound-response gene expression signature in predicting breast cancer survival

  Howard Y. Chang, Dimitry S. A. Nuyten, Julie B. Sneddon · 2005 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 746 citations

• Stability and Scalability of Homogeneous Vehicular Platoon: Study on the Influence of Information Flow Topologies

  Yang Zheng, Shengbo Eben Li, Jianqiang Wang · 2016 · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems · 741 citations

• Analysis of the scalability of diffraction-limited fiber lasers and amplifiers to high average power

  Jay W. Dawson, Michael J. Messerly, Raymond J. Beach · 2008 · Optics Express · 693 citations

• Overview of fine granularity scalability in MPEG-4 video standard

  Weiping Li · 2001 · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 621 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Techno-economic analysis of hydrogen production: Costs, policies, and scalability in the transition to net-zero

  Eliseo Curcio · 2025 · International Journal of Hydrogen Energy · 277 citations

• Fast Multi-View Clustering Via Ensembles: Towards Scalability, Superiority, and Simplicity

  Dong Huang, Chang-Dong Wang, Jian-Huang Lai · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 265 citations

• Monolithic vs. Microservice Architecture: A Performance and Scalability Evaluation

  Grzegorz Blinowski, Anna Ojdowska, Adam Przybylek · 2022 · IEEE Access · 250 citations

• Lab-scale photobioreactor systems: principles, applications, and scalability

  Philipp Benner, Lisa Meier, Annika Pfeffer · 2022 · Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering · 215 citations

• Synthetic Molecular Photoelectrochemistry: New Frontiers in Synthetic Applications, Mechanistic Insights and Scalability

  Shangze Wu, Jaspreet Kaur, Tobias A. Karl · 2022 · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 214 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Designing and Developing Scalable IP NetworksGuy Davies · 2004
• Scalability Density and Decision Making in Cognitive Wireless NetworksPreston Marshall · 2012
• Architecting for ScaleLee Atchison · 2016
• 📕Implementing Cisco UCS SolutionsFarhan Nadeem, Prasenjit Sarkar · 2013
• Inter-domain managementInternational Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (1st 2007 Oslo, Norway) · 2007
• Scalable and secure internet services and architectureChengzhong Xu · 2005
• Scalability rulesMartin L. Abbott · 2011
• The art of scalabilityMartin L. Abbott · 2010

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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