Optimizing the NASA Technical Report Server

Emerald - 1996
Michael L.Nelson1, Ming‐HokngMaa2
1Michael L. Nelson is the “webmaster” for NASA Langley Research Center, Computer Systems Branch, Mail Stop 157A, 15 Langley Boulevard, Hampton, VA 23681‐0001, USA. Tel: 804 8648511; Fax: 804 8648342; E‐mail: <[email protected]> . He has also worked with others to implement report servers, software servers, technology transfer databases and other World Wide Web services and is also the technical lead for NASA Langley Research Center’s workstation clustering activities. Ming‐Hokng Maa is a NASA Langley Research Center Cooperative Education Student, e‐mail: <[email protected]>, pursuing his BS in computer engineering/computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has previously held research positions at nView Corp. and the Inter‐National Research Institute, Inc
2Ming‐Hokng Maa is a NASA Langley Research Center Cooperative Education Student, e‐mail: <[email protected]>, pursuing his BS in computer engineering/computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has previously held research positions at nView Corp. and the Inter‐National Research Institute, Inc

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Explains how the NASA Technical Report Server, a World Wide Web report distribution NASA technical publications service, has been modified for performance enhancement, greater protocol support and human interface optimization. Results include: parallel database queries, significantly decreasing user access times by an average factor of 2.3; access from clients behind firewalls and/or proxies which truncate excessively long Uniform Resource Locators; access to non‐Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) databases and compatibility with the Z39‐50.3 protocol; and a streamlined user interface.

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