Efficient VSM-based Parallel Text Retrieval on a PC-Cluster Environment using MPI

18th ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems 2005, PDCS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 334-341

  Kehagias, Dimitris ^a   Mamalis, Basilis ^a   Pantziou, Grammati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

cluster computing; document clustering; MPI; parallel applications; text retrieval

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLUSTER ENVIRONMENTS; DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION; DOCUMENT CLUSTERING; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; MPI; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL TEXT; PC CLUSTERS; SPEED UP; TEXT RETRIEVAL;

CLUSTER COMPUTING;

EID: 52049105540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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