Participating in a text retrieval conference for the first time, Eidetica has run six minimalistic tests with its t·repository indexer, doing as little tuning as possible, in order to evaluate its “performance baseline”. Since no tuning was done, we will only discuss the general properties of our indexing software and how it was run on the CLEF topic sets for the monolingual German and Dutch ta...

In this paper, we examine the concept of giving every job a trial run before committing it to run until completion. Trial runs allow immediate job failures to be detected shortly after job submission and benefit short jobs by letting them run and finish early. This occurs without incurring a significant penalty on longer jobs, whose average and maximum waiting time are actually improved in some...