ANU Computer Science Technical Reports

TR-CS-95-08

David Hawking.
The design and implementation of a parallel document retrieval engine.
December 1995.

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Abstract: Document retrieval as traditionally formulated is an inherently parallel task because the document collection can be divided into N sub-collections each of which may be searched independently. Document retrieval software can potentially exploit the power and capacity of a large-scale parallel machine to improve speed, to extend the size of the largest collection which can be processed, to respond quickly to changes in the document collection and/or to increase the power and expressivity of the retrieval query language. This paper includes discussion of the issues involved in the design of a practical parallel document retrieval engine for a distributed-memory multicomputer and a description of the implementation of PADRE, a retrieval engine for the Fujitsu AP1000. Performance results are presented and scope of applicability of the techniques is discussed.

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