This is dominant use of computers in business and ~80% of business use involves transactions which are short, taking < 1 second ----> can parallelize simply by processing several users simultaneously
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| OLTP unlikely to need a "teraflop" machine unless we add sophisticated processing to database access |
| Teradata ( --> NCR --> AT and T ) is largest parallel computer vendor whose systems are used to summarize inventories (etc.) and parallelized similarly over several small records. |