Parallelizing an Index Generator for Desktop Search

David J. Meder (1) , Walter F. Tichy (1)

1 IPD - Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization [ALLEMAGNE]

Experience with the parallelization of an index generator for desktop search is presented. Several configurations of the index generator are compared on three different Intel platforms with 4, 8, and 32 cores. The optimal configurations for these platforms are not intuitive and are markedly different for the three platforms. For finding the optimal configuration, detailed measurements and experimentation were necessary. Several recommendations for parallel software design are derived from this study.

Domains: Hardware Architecture [cs.AR]

David J. Meder, Walter F. Tichy. Parallelizing an Index Generator for Desktop Search. A4MMC 2010 - 1st Workshop on Applications for Multi and Many Core Processors, Jun 2010, Saint Malo, France. ⟨inria-00493875⟩