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Foil 36 Infrastructure -- Database

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project First Review Review Meeting at Rome Laboratory -- 31 January 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Parallel Database Server Facility
  • Currently running of 4 wide nodes of the SP2 Power Server, 1GB RAM, 70 GB of disk space
  • Runs Oracle relational DBMS. Supports both parallel server and parallel data query capability
  • 4 instances of the server run against the same database
  • Network access upgrade to the parallel server pending: switched Ethernet to FDDI backbone.
Relational-Object-Oriented Database
  • Illustra DBMS running on the SGI Onyx
    • provides support for multimedia data types
    • very high performance (low overhead) engine
    • directly supports GIS technology


Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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