Parallelizing an index generator for desktop search

Authors:
David J. Meder;Walter F. Tichy
Affiliations:
Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization (IPD), University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany;Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization (IPD), University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Venue:
ISCA'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Computer Architecture
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Experience with the parallelization of an index generator for desktop search is presented. Several configurations of the index generator are compared on three different Intel platforms with 4, 8, and 32 cores. The optimal configurations for these platforms are not intuitive and are markedly different for the three platforms. For finding the optimal configuration, detailed measurements and experimentation were necessary. Several recommendations for parallel software design are derived from this study.