AskNPAC

Searchable USENET Newsgroups & Mailing List Archives

• Very Large Database, Powered by Parallel Oracle7 Database Servers on an MIMD Parallel Machine - IBM SP2. 
  
• WWW Interfaces, Accessible from the Internet Around the World.
  
• Real-time Archives of Hundreds of USENET Newsgroups and Mailing Lists.
  
• Integration of High-Performance Parallel Server, Parallel Relational Database Technology and Web Systems - Parallel Web Servers and Oracle Instances, Automatic Optimized Load Balancing of Concurrent Web Client Access to the Shared Database.
  
• Multiple Search Interfaces: Frame-based, Form-based, LIne-based and Calendar-based.
  
• Fact Data: 450 newsgroups & Mailing Lists, 3.2 million messages, ~10 GB.
  
• URL: http://asknpac.npac.syr.edu

AskNPAC Chat-Board

• Integrated Real-time Internet Chat and Bulltin Board.
  
• Web Browser as Chat Client Software
  
• Real-time Message Archiving and Search Capability.
  
• Support Multiple Chat/Bulletin Groups Simultaneously.
  
• Multiple Conversation Modes: Personal (One-to-One), Group (Many-to-Many) and Moderated Auditoriums (One-to-Many).
  
• Email-Oriented Message Format.
  
• High-Performance Chat Server to Support Large Number of Concurrent Users.
  
• URL: http://asknpac.npac.syr.edu