The multimedia object presentation manager of MINOS: a symmetric approach
SIGMOD '86 Proceedings of the 1986 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Multikey access methods based on superimposed coding techniques
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Signature-based text retrieval methods: a survey
Data Engineering
Concurrent frame signature files
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Information Retrieval
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Heuristics for Scheduling I/O Operations
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Partial collection replication versus caching for information retrieval systems
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Design and implementation of a network-wide concurrent file system in a workstation cluster
MSS '95 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems
A case study of distributed information retrieval architectures to index one terabyte of text
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A case study of distributed information retrieval architectures to index one terabyte of text
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Performance comparison of clustered and replicated information retrieval systems
ECIR'07 Proceedings of the 29th European conference on IR research
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An I/O intensive application, parallel full text retrieval based on a signature file method, is studied. The text retrieval system is implemented on a cluster of DEC5000 workstations connected by Ethernet. Experiments are performed to evaluate the benefit and cost for running such an application in a workstation cluster. Results show that substantial improvement in speed can be obtained through parallelism in disk accesses, despite the high communication and synchronization overhead that is incurred. Several factors that affect the performance of a parallel I/O application in this type of computing environment are discussed. The advantages of a workstation cluster are its large combined I/O buffer capacity, and possible concurrent accesses to disks local to each workstation. Our study demonstrates that these advantages, when exploited properly, can lead to effective performance improvement without the need for additional hardware.