Experimental studies of scalability in clustered Web systems

Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2004 (Abstracts and CD-ROM)

Volumn 18, Issue , 2004, Pages 2603-2611

  Haddad, Ibrahim ^a   Butler, Greg ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bench marking; Clusters; Performance; Scalability; Web Servers

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; PERFORMANCE; SERVERS;

CLUSTERS; SCALABILITY; WEB SERVERS; WEB SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 12444346817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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