[I forgot to CC: this to the list, I've edited my reply a bit from the
original email to Godmar.]

Hi Godmar, all:

We'd love to do this and may consider doing so in the future.
As we are primarily a research unit doing such services is wonderful
but only when staff have time.

Just FYI, the web service we offer is running on one machine for the
public, but internally in our group we have a number of machines that
handle ParsCit web service calls that are brokered by a load balancing
mechanism; however we cannot spare the computational bandwidth for our
public interfaces.  For us in-house, it is a production system (though
we have yet to really stress test this).  This is why we are hoping
others will find the system useful and install it on their own.

If someone does make ParsCit available in a scalable web service
environment free of charge, we'd certainly link to it from the main
ParsCit website.  Any takers for some volunteer work?

Cheers,

Min

PS - Godmar suggested that we (and others providing like web services)
consider designing our web services in a scalable way from the
beginning so that we don't have to worry or focus bandwidth on making
our services scalable.  I'm very happy to learn such technologies, if
someone can point us in the appropriate direction -- Google App or
otherwise.

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Godmar Back <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Min, Eric, and others working in this domain -
>
> have you considered designing your software as a scalable web service
> from the get-go, using such frameworks as Google App Engine? You may
> be able to use Montepython for the CRF computations
> (http://montepython.sourceforge.net/)
>
> I know Min offers a WSDL wrapper around their software, but that's
> simply a gateway to one single-machine installation, and it's not
> intended as a production service at that.
>
>  - Godmar



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