AskNPAC - A Parallel Web and RDBMS-based Information System for Internet Information Retrieval and Collaboration |
Novel Content - USENET Newsgroups, mailing-lists personal mailboxes, bulletin-boards |
High-Performance Server Technology - Multiple Web and RDBMS servers to access the same database, real-time archiving and indexing, load-balancing for large number of concurrent users |
Web Interface for global access, linking high-performance parallel systems into pervasive Internet applications |
Large Database - 6 topics, > 200 newsgroups and mailing lists, total 2.3 million articles, > 10 GB |