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Parallel Text Searching on a Beowulf Cluster using SRW
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Friday September 23 2005 @ 11:48AM EDT
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While the news is full of reports of the success of the Internet search engines at searching billions of web pages at prices so low that they can afford to give the searching away for free, such affordable searching is not common in the rest of the world. What searching is available in the rest of the world is not scalable, not cheap or not fast. Often it suffers from a combination of those flaws.
This article describes our experience building a scalable, relatively inexpensive, and fast searching framework that demonstrated 172 searches per second on a database of 50 million records. The article should be of interest to anyone seeking an inexpensive, open source, text-searching framework that scales to extremely large databases. The technology described uses the SRW (Search/Retrieve Web) service in a manner nearly identical to federated searching in the metasearch community and should be of interest to anyone doing federated searching.
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