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Foil 55 Parallel Database Software Architecture
Distributed Lock Manager

From Full Relational Database HPDC-4 Presentation HPDC-4 Tutorial/CPS616 Spring95 -- August 1, Pentagon City Virginia. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny (Geoffrey Fox) * See also color IMAGE

Implementation of Parallel Cache Management
Support transaction parallelism of multiple OLTP
A simple and effective approach to port sequential RDBMS to MPP and loosely coupled systems with shared-nothing architecture
support parallel loading, parallel indexing, parallel insert/update and parallel recovery
Major functionality
  • keep track of the current ÒownshipÓ of a resource
  • accepts requests for resources from application processes
  • notifies the requesting process when a resource is available
  • get exclusive access to a resource for a resource
Note this can work fine in OLTP with many uncorrelated queries but will not work in scientific computing where ALL updates are correclated and reserving a resource introduces a sequential bottleneck


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