From: Peter Booth <pbooth@...>
Date: 2007-04-24T04:23:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Concurrency, Performance Modeling, Rinda and CiteULike

Ed,

CiteULike looks excellent. On a related note, do you have a good  
solution for indexing PDF documents?

Peter Booth

On Apr 21, 2007, at 2:32 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

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> I have just discovered CiteULike. It's sort of a del.icio.us for
> academics, and it collects a web-based library of academic papers. My
> URL there is http://www.citeulike.org/user/znmeb/. What I'm currently
> doing is collecting some of my favorite papers on performance  
> modeling.
>
> In the process of doing that, I stumbled on a number of papers  
> involving
> Linda-based techniques for distributed computing. I haven't fully  
> traced
> out the tree yet or read many of the papers, but it seems to me, since
> Ruby already has Rinda, and since there's quite a bit of both
> theoretical and practical "equipment" available, that this collection
> might prove useful to some folks here. The tag is "linda", and I'll be
> exploring it further over the next few days and weeks.
>
> As a side note, I'm glad I found this, because I've got a couple  
> gbytes
> of PDFs stored on my hard drive, another collection at work, and I  
> need
> some kind of indexing mechanism. :) As another side note, how  
> efficient
> are the current implementations of Rinda and dRB?
>
>
> - --
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
> http://borasky-research.net/
>
> If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given
> rabbits fire.
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Peter Booth
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