Scalable Web clusters with static and dynamic contents

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 170-177

  Casalicchio, E ^a   Colajanni, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Access protocols; Buildings; Databases; Dispatching; Electronic publishing; Open systems; Round robin; Service oriented architecture; Switches; Web server

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; INFORMATION SERVICES; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPEN SYSTEMS; ROUTERS; SEARCH ENGINES; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SWITCHES; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACCESS PROTOCOLS; DISPATCHING; DYNAMIC INFORMATION; OSI PROTOCOL STACK; ROUND ROBIN; SCHEDULING POLICIES; WEB CLUSTER SYSTEMS; WEB SERVERS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 84949551081     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2000.889028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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