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A Scavenger Grid for Intranet Indexing

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Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information (ICADL 2008)

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Digital library services, such as searching and browsing, are increasingly needed in more restricted environments than the public Web. This paper proposes a scavenger Grid of idle desktop workstations to support computationally-intensive indexing services. A prototype software system was developed using commodity Grid middleware and information retrieval tools. This system demonstrated that the overhead incurred by Grid middleware is manageable and that performance gains are significant.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Private Bag x3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa

    Ndapandula Nakashole & Hussein Suleman

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  1. Ndapandula Nakashole
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  1. Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Swansea, UK

    George Buchanan

  2. Computer Science Department, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Masood Masoodian

  3. Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Sally Jo Cunningham

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Nakashole, N., Suleman, H. (2008). A Scavenger Grid for Intranet Indexing. In: Buchanan, G., Masoodian, M., Cunningham, S.J. (eds) Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information. ICADL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89533-6_53

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