A light-weight, temporary file system for large-scale Web servers

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, MASCOTS

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 96-103

  Wang, J ^a   Li, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascading style sheets; File servers; File systems; Large scale systems; Network servers; Prefetching; Read write memory; Throughput; Utility programs; Web server

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); SERVERS; THROUGHPUT; UTILITY PROGRAMS; WEB SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CASCADING STYLE SHEETS; FILE SERVERS; FILE SYSTEMS; NETWORK SERVER; PREFETCHING; WEB SERVERS;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84947930309     PISSN: 15267539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MASCOT.2003.1240647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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