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Multi-threaded web servers are typically parallelized by hand using the pthreads library. OpenMP has rarely been used to parallelize such kind of applications, although we foresee that it can be a great tool for network servers developers. In this paper we compare how easy is to parallelize the Boa web server using OpenMP, compared to a pthreads parallelization, and the performance achieved. We present the results of a parallelization based on OpenMP 2.0, the dynamic sections model and pthreads.
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Balart, J., Duran, A., Gonzàlez, M., Martorell, X., Ayguadé, E., Labarta, J. (2008). Experiences Parallelizing a Web Server with OpenMP. In: Mueller, M.S., Chapman, B.M., de Supinski, B.R., Malony, A.D., Voss, M. (eds) OpenMP Shared Memory Parallel Programming. IWOMP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68555-5_16
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