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The European Declarative System (EDS) is a high performance computer server designed for developing advanced information processing systems (e.g. extended database systems, knowledge based systems, ... etc.). One major application target of EDS is to serve the needs of existing and future commercial and business professionals; and the application domain ranges from simple data-intensive on-line transaction processing to complex computation-intensive decision support systems. To achieve high performance, parallelism is exploited extensively in both the hardware and the software. In this paper, an overview of the EDS architectures and the advanced commercial applications running on the EDS system are described.
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Skelton, C.J., Hammer, C., Lopez, M., Reeve, M.J., Townsend, P., Wong, K.F. (1992). EDS: A parallel computer system for advanced information processing. 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_77
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