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# Hwaet! Such swift search, SRU on a cluster
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/hwaet-such-swift-search-sru-on-a-cluster/
- Published: 2005-09-19T14:32:11.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T21:03:14.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: #MPOW, Systems

My colleagues write about parallel text searching on a Beowulf Cluster in the current DLib Magazine:

> This article describes our experience building a scalable, relatively inexpensive, and fast searching framework that demonstrated 172 searches per second on a database of 50 million records. The article should be of interest to anyone seeking an inexpensive, open source, text-searching framework that scales to extremely large databases. The technology described uses the SRW (Search/Retrieve Web) service in a manner nearly identical to federated searching in the metasearch community and should be of interest to anyone doing federated searching. \[[Parallel Text Searching on a Beowulf Cluster using SRW](https://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/levan/09levan.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

And a topical conclusion:

> There is reason to be concerned about the efficiency of SRW and SOAP-based Web Services as opposed to SRU and REST-style services, at least in high-throughput multi-threaded clients. \[[Parallel Text Searching on a Beowulf Cluster using SRW](https://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/levan/09levan.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]