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Foil 38 Data Partitioning in Oracle 7

From Second Part of RDBMS Discussion ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny Chao-Wei Ou
Oracle 7 on nCUBE2 and IBM SP2 are actually implemented as shared-disk (vs. shared-nothing) architecture
  • See earlier discussion of sophisticated nCUBE implementation
Shared database by sharing disks through parallel file system or parallel I/O system:
  • nCUBE -- the GFS (Global File System) over a Gigacache Subcube and nCUBE2's parallel I/O system;
  • IBM SP2 -- VSD (Virtual Shared Disk) parallel I/O system (over the HPS)

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