# Concurrency, Performance Modeling, Rinda and CiteULike **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 21, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/concurrency-performance-modeling-rinda-and-citeulike/92625 "2007-04-21T20:33:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MSEdward_SEdS_Bora)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/concurrency-performance-modeling-rinda-and-citeulike/92625/1 "2007-04-21T20:33:45Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have just discovered CiteULike. It’s sort of a [del.icio.us](http://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/](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/](http://borasky-research.net/) If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - [http://enigmail.mozdev.org](http://enigmail.mozdev.org) iD8DBQFGKlh9IqRAswy4LDARApVMAJ447lUd1JPl3ikHFto16+hHDKIh9gCcD/Iz Aow4dHTwDPIJJor8gCdZQy8= =waOn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MSEdward_SEdS_Bora)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/concurrency-performance-modeling-rinda-and-citeulike/92625/2 "2007-04-23T21:24:47Z")
Ed, CiteULike looks excellent. On a related note, do you have a good solution for indexing PDF documents? Peter B. On Apr 21, 2007, at 2:32 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > involving > of PDFs stored on my hard drive, another collection at work, and I > If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given > rabbits fire. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - [http://enigmail.mozdev.org](http://enigmail.mozdev.org) > > iD8DBQFGKlh9IqRAswy4LDARApVMAJ447lUd1JPl3ikHFto16+hHDKIh9gCcD/Iz > Aow4dHTwDPIJJor8gCdZQy8= > =waOn > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Peter B. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid 917 445 5663 ---
**Author:** ![MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@MSEdward\_SEdS\_Bora](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MSEdward_SEdS_Bora)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/concurrency-performance-modeling-rinda-and-citeulike/92625/3 "2007-04-24T03:36:18Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter B. wrote: > Ed, > > CiteULike looks excellent. On a related note, do you have a good > solution for indexing PDF documents? The best thing I found when I was playing with tools was Namazu. There are quite a few other tools that will do the same thing Namazu does, but it seemed to be pre-configured for things like Word and PDF, while the other tools needed a lot of configuration/setup. I may be wrong about that; if someone wants to defend their favorite other tool, please feel free. 🙂 BTW, Acroread does a decent job of _searching_ PDFs, but it’s beastly slow on Linux and only does PDFs – not Word docs. * * * M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P) [http://borasky-research.net/](http://borasky-research.net/) If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - [http://enigmail.mozdev.org](http://enigmail.mozdev.org) iD8DBQFGLV6hIqRAswy4LDARAqmvAJ4gtYW0w4eWP3JwbUd273rOzTogyQCdGmIB viYzgRnaFNcpPzEZQhos/Os= =3eoK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----