HACC: An architecture for cluster-based web servers

3rd USENIX Windows NT Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Zhang, Xiaolan ^a   Barrientos, Michael ^a   Bradley Chen, J ^a   Seltzer, Margo ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; WEB SERVICES;

CLUSTER NODES; CLUSTER-BASED WEB SERVER; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; COST EFFECTIVE; DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; LOCALITY OF REFERENCE; STATIC DOCUMENTS;

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

EID: 85094870235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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