Exploiting NIC memory for improving cluster-based webserver performance

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Choi, Gyu Sang ^a   Kim, Jin Ha ^a   Ersoz, Deniz ^a   Yousif, Mazin S ^b   Das, Chita R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; CLUSTER-BASED; CLUSTER-BASED WEB SERVERS; DATA BLOCKS; DISTRIBUTED WEB SERVER; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LINUX CLUSTERING; LOCAL MEMORIES; MYRINET; NETWORK-BASED SERVICES; PCI BUS; PROGRAMMABLE NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS; SERVER PERFORMANCE; WEB SERVERS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FLASH MEMORY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS); WEB SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SERVERS;

EID: 50149107457     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2005.347067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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