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In this paper, we describe the structure and utilization of a high bandwidth, multi-ported, disk-sized memory system capable of storing, maintaining, and manipulating persistent shared data within it, independent of any external processing units. Up to thousands of active storage elements, each element having some storage and some associated processing logic, function independently or in groups to implement user-defined objects and data structures. Hundreds of transactions can concurrently be processed by mutually exclusive sets of elements. A fast response time is obtained due to the proximity of the processing with the memory, a specialized micro-architecture, and parallelism.
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Asthana, A., Jagadish, H.V., Knauer, S.C. (1989). An intelligent memory transaction engine. In: Boral, H., Faudemay, P. (eds) Database Machines. IWDM 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 368. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51324-8_42
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