Report about the provisional central Cache Server in Germany
Jens Kurlanda, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University,
Robert-Mayer-Strasse 13-15, 60054 Frankfurt
kurlanda@rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de,
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/rbi/personal/JK.html
Heinrich Stamerjohanns, University of Oldenburg,
Department of Physics, 26111 Oldenburg
stamer@merlin.physik.uni-oldenburg.de,http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/Docs/theo3/stamer.html
- Abstract:
- In April 1994 a provisional cache server for German universities
was installed in Frankfurt. Seven universities are currently
participating. Statistics are presented and experiences are discussed.
- Keywords:
- Cache Server, Caching
Inspired by the presentation of Neil Smith at WWW94
[Smith94],
a central Cache Server
[luotonen94]
for for German Science Institutes was suggested by Heinrich Stamerjohanns.
The facilities were provided by the RBI in course of an internal project at
the Department of Computer Science, University of Frankfurt, where Jens Kurlanda
volunteered for maintenance of that Server. Seven universities are currently
connected through their university-wide cache server.
In our poster we will show collected statistics of the use of
the central server, including hit rates and correlated hits between
local and central caches.
We will also discuss usefulness of central caches and suggest locations
for much more effective caching (e.g. US-Gate Germany-USA).
- [Smith94]
- Neil Smith: What can Archives offer the World Wide Web, http://www1.cern.ch/PapersWWW94/ngs.ps
- [Luotonen94]
- Ari Luotonen: World-Wide Web Proxies, http://www1.cern.ch/PapersWWW94/luotonen.ps