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| Database Infrastructure and Application Areas |
| Database Search areas such as askNPAC |
| Web search System |
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Database Research and Applications at NPAC
Major Database Application Areas
Database Infrastructure at NPAC
Major Database Development Activities
Integration of Relational Database Technology in WWW and Internet
AskNPAC System Architecture
RDBMS-based Web Agent and Full-Text Web Search System
NPAC Web Search System
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| Marek Podgorny, Chao-Wei Ou, Geoffrey Fox |
| Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University |
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| Education - ThinkQuest, NewsBank |
| Telemedicine - CareWeb, Patient Record Database |
| Manufacturing and Electronic Commerce - Carrier |
| Chemistry - AskNPAC Chemistry Data Repository |
| Multimedia - Image Database, VOD |
| Geographic Information System - 3D Terrain Rendering with Illustra Database Backend |
| Internet Information Provider - USENET Newsgroup Archive |
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| Parallel Oracle 7.3 RDBMS (parallel server and parallel query options) on an IBM SP2 and an nCUBE2 |
| Two Oracle 7 RDBMS servers on an IBM RS/6000 and a Sun UltraSparc |
| One Oracle 7 RDBMS server on a Sun UltraSparc for educational classes |
| Illustra (Informix) server on an SGI SMP |
| DB2 Parallel Edition on an IBM SP2 (for benchmarking only) |
| > 160 GB disk space for database projects |
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| Integration of Relational Database Technology in WWW |
| Full-Text Indexing and Search in WWW Space |
| Database Support in Web-based Multi-media Information and Collaborative Systems |
| Web-based Enterprise Intranet Information Systems |
| Object-Oriented Database and Visualization |
| Benchmarking and Evaluation of Parallel RDBMS Technology in large-scale information systems |
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| 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 |
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| Major Components and Architecture of a Web Search System |
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| Use Oracle 7 RDBMS as Database Server and Search Engine |
| Oracle Context Server Option as Indexing Engine for Full-Text Indexing |
A RDBM-based Web Gathering Subsystem is Developed
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