HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared April 4,1995

Foil 12 Caching of Internet Data on HPCC Server at NPAC

From Webserver General Description -- January 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Servers at NPAC will fetch data from internet (GII) and store on local disks
  • This allows teacher selection of information of relevance -- equivalent to teacher selecting a set of reference books from the library.
  • This allows one to deliver information at full speed of an optimized community network without limitation of lower speed global networks
  • There is an option to make generic and customized CD-Roms for particular businesses, school districts or classes
Example from Kids Web:
  • Selection of educational material from Internet
  • A particular automatic fetching algorithm (all information one-hop from NPAC list in KIds Web pages) took 12.5 hours
    • Visited 1329 hosts
    • Downloaded 8444 files
    • Took 151 Megabytes to store
  • Formally would take 8 seconds to deliver over OC3 ATM link

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

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