A World-Wide Web server on a multicomputer system

Author

Wu, Chun-Hsing ; Yeh, Chun-Chao ; Juang, Jie-Yong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

1996

fDate

12-14 Jun 1996

Firstpage

522

Lastpage

528

Abstract

As the number of people browsing the world-wide web increases explosively, the workload of popular web servers also increases rapidly. A multicomputer system that was designed for I/O intensive applications has been found to be quite suitable for serving as a web server. The system is composed of multiple clusters of multiprocessors interconnected by an interconnection network. The interconnection network is an ATM-like cell-based switching network which can be restructured so that the system can be scaled up to meet the increasing demands of web service. It is also found that the multicomputer system can support video streams effectively. Design of the system as well as porting of web servers on to it are discussed in this paper

Keywords

Internet; multiprocessor interconnection networks; network operating systems; network servers; World-Wide Web server; cell-based switching; interconnection network; multicomputer system; web servers; Availability; Computer science; Internet; Laboratories; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Prototypes; Streaming media; Web server; Web services; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, 1996. Proceedings., Second International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1087-4089

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7460-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPAN.1996.509035

Filename

509035