Enhanced USENET News Server with a GUI Configuration Utility
by Mohan Kokal and Stephen Clark Advisor: Dr. Donald Schertz As the Internet continues to expand dramatically on a yearly basis,
the need for efficient and timely processing of transferred data becomes
a critical issue. It has been estimated, by a number of USENET administrators,
that the amount of data transferred across the USENET (also commonly known
as "Net News") backbone to each member server was about 2.5 terabytes (2,500,000,000,000
Bytes) for the year of 1997. This figure is estimated to grow at a rate
of about 98% per year. The project involves designing a USENET news server
that takes this dramatic growth rate into account and works around the
problems encountered by currently available servers. The server is written
in the C programming language using the Solaris TM threads library to allows
for fast and efficient parallel processing. The server also uses a new
method of article storage called the Cyclic File System that allows for
efficient software and hardware use. One other major component of the project
is a JavaTM front-end graphic user interface (GUI) that allows for a user
friendly server configuration.
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