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SWEB: Towards a Scalable World Wide Web Server on Multicomputers

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Daniel Andresen,

Tao Yang,

Vegard Holmedahl,

Oscar H. IbarraAuthors Info & Claims

IPPS '96: Proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Processing Symposium

Pages 850 - 856

Published: 15 April 1996 Publication History

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We investigate the issues involved in developing a scalable World Wide Web (WWW) server on a cluster of workstations and parallel machines. The objective is to strengthen the processing capabilities of such a server by utilizing the power of multicomputers to match huge demands in simultaneous access requests from the Internet. We have implemented a system called SWEB on a distributed memory machine, the Meiko CS-2, and networked workstations. The scheduling component of the system actively monitors the usages of CPU, I/O channels and the interconnection network to effectively distribute HTTP requests across processing units to exploit task and I/O parallelism. We present the experimental results on the performance of this system.

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