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Foil 19 Application Motivation II: Web Search

From Introduction to Computational Science CPS615 Computational Science Class -- Spring Semester 2000. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Note Web Search, like transaction analysis has "obvious" parallelization (over both users and data)with modest synchronization issues
2 Critical issues are: fault-tolerance (.9999 to .99999 reliability); bounded search time (a fraction of a second); scalability (to the world); fast system upgrade times
3 (days)

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