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World Wide Web Robot for Extreme Datamining with Swiss-Tx Supercomputers

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  • A.S.A. Roehrl
  • M. Frey
  • R.A. Roehrl

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This paper discusses the software and hardware issues of designing a highly parallel robot for extreme datamining on the Internet. As a sample application, a World Wide Web server count experiment for Switzerland and Thailand is presented. Our platform of choice is the SwissTx, a supercomputer built from commodity components that runs NT and COMPAQ tru64 UNIX. Hardware and software of this machine are discussed and benchmark results presented. They show that NT is a feasible choice even under the given extreme conditions. Using statistical modelling for optimizing the search process, the inevitable bandwidth problem is reduced to some extent to a computation problem. We suggest that our approach to Web robots is a robust bet for a multitude of future Internet applications which might lead to a large-scale and cost-efficient usage of Web robots.

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  • A.S.A. Roehrl & M. Frey & R.A. Roehrl, 1999. "World Wide Web Robot for Extreme Datamining with Swiss-Tx Supercomputers," Working Papers ir99020, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
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