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Document
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Overview
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- :doc:`RaSC Overview <rasc_overview>`

Tutorial
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Speed up user programs
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**Tutorial 1-1:** :doc:`rasc_core`

- Explains how to reduce overhead of startup of user programs and call the programs on remote computers.
- Overviews the basic settings of a RaSC service.

**Tutorial 1-2:** :doc:`rasc_parallel_local`

- Explains how to execute user programs in parallel on one computer, using a multi-core CPU.
- Explains parallel execution inside RaSC and usecases.

**Tutorial 1-3:** :doc:`rasc_msgpack_various_lang`

- Provides some examples of calling a RaSC service from Perl, Python and Ruby.

**Tutorial 1-4:** Run your analysis tool as an RaSC service (in preparation)

- Explains how to define interface tailored to the function of a user program.

Improve usability and compatibility
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**Tutorial 2-1:** :doc:`rasc_basic`

- Explains how to use various network protocols, JSON RPC, ProtocolBuffers, and SOAP in additon to MessagePack RPC.
- Shows usage of JSON RPC through command line or the Web browser interface.

**Tutorial 2-2:** :doc:`rasc_client_pb`

- Explains how to use ProtocolBuffers, a high-speed binary protocol developed by Google.
- Shows a Java client program to call a RaSC service through ProtocolBuffers.

**Tutorial 2-3:** :doc:`rasc_client_soap`

- Explains how to a call RaSC service with SOAP, which is the major protocol for SOA (service-oriented architecture).
- Shows the SOAP standalone client soapUI to call a RaSC service.

Distributed execution using multiple computers
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**Tutorial 3-1:** :doc:`rasc_parallel`

- Executes RaSC services on multiple nodes to process large scale data, and aggregates the results.
- Introduces load balancing using a round robin.

**Tutorial 3-2:** Monitor distributed execution (in preparation)

- Explains monitoring over RaSC services in a distributed environment, using Fluentd and growthforecast.

Specifications
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- :doc:`service_xml`
- `JavaDoc <javadoc/>`_

.. toctree::
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   rasc_overview
   rasc_core
   rasc_parallel_local
   rasc_msgpack_various_lang
   rasc_basic
   rasc_parallel
   service_xml
   rasc_client_pb
   rasc_client_soap