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Exegesis of DBC/1012 and P-90 - industrial supercomputer database machines

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PARLE '92 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe (PARLE 1992)

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This paper describes the DBC/1012's architecture, its broadcast sort/merge Ynet interconnection network, its data distribution and access strategies, its parallel execution schemes and intra-query parallelism, its method for handling linear system growth, and an optical technology solution that replaces microfiche. Also described are the hierarchical data storage needs of most large industrial and governmental concerns and why certain applications can now be implemented for the first time. Various industry case studies are examined on the important issues of how they use multimedia parallel database systems to satisfy complex decision support analysis. Finally, we present a brief analysis of P-90, our next generation parallel database computer system. In particular, we discuss the performance enhancement gains provided by introducing multiprocessing at the board level, the expected benefits of RAID5 disk arrays, and a new bidirectional, multistage, high bandwidth, pointtopoint interconnection network.

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Cariño, F., Kostamaa, P. (1992). Exegesis of DBC/1012 and P-90 - industrial supercomputer database machines. In: Etiemble, D., Syre, JC. (eds) PARLE '92 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 605. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55599-4_130

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