AN ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE AND COST FACTORS IN SEARCHING LARGE TEXT DATABASES USING PARALLEL SEARCH-SYSTEMS

Authors
COUVREUR TR BENZEL RN MILLER SF ZEITLER DN LEE DL SINGHAL M SHIVARATRI N WONG WYP
Citation
Tr. Couvreur et al., AN ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE AND COST FACTORS IN SEARCHING LARGE TEXT DATABASES USING PARALLEL SEARCH-SYSTEMS, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(7), 1994, pp. 443-464
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science","Information Science & Library Science
Journal title
Journal of the American Society for Information Science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00028231
Volume
45
Issue
7
Year of publication
1994
Pages
443 - 464
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-8231(1994)45:7<443:AAOPAC>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
The results of modeling the performance of searching large text databa ses (>10 gigabytes) via various parallel hardware architectures and se arch algorithms are discussed. The performance under load and the cost of each configuration are compared. Strengths, weaknesses, performanc e sensitivities, and search features supported for each configuration are also addressed. In addition, a common search workload used in the modeling is described. The search workload is derived from a set of se arches run against the Chemical Abstracts (CA) file of bibliographic a nd abstract text available on STN International(R). This common worklo ad is applied to all configurations modeled to provide a common basis of comparison.