NDLI: Evaluating the performance of distributed architectures for information retrieval using a variety of workloads

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Lu, Zhihong Mckinley, Kathryn S. Cahoon, Brendon
Copyright Year	2000
Abstract	The information explosion across the Internet and elswhere offers access to an increasing number of document collections. In order for users to effectively access these collections, information retrieval (IR) systems must provide coordinated, concurrent, and distributed access. In this article, we explore how to achieve scalable performance in a distributed system for collection sizes ranging from 1GB to 128GB. We implement a fully functional distributed IR system based on a multithreaded version of the Inquery simulation model. We measure performance as a function of system parameters such as client command rate, number of document collections, ter ms per query, query term frequency, number of answers returned, and command mixture. Our results show that it is important to model both query and document commands because the heterogeneity of commands significantly impacts performance. Based on our results, we recommend simple changes to the prototype and evaluate the changes using the simulator. Because of the significant resource demands of information retrieval, it is not difficult to generate workloads that overwhelm system resources regardless of the architecture. However under some realistic workloads, we demonstrate system organizations for which response time gracefully degrades as the workload increases and performance scales with the number of processors. This scalable architecture includes a surprisingly small number of brokers through which a large number of clients and servers communicate.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	43
Page Count	43
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10468188
e-ISSN	15582868
DOI	10.1145/333135.333136
Volume Number	18
Issue Number	1
Journal	ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2000-01-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Distributed information retrieval architectures
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Applications Information Systems Business, Management and Accounting

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