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PRISMA, a platform for experiments with parallelism

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Parallel Database Systems (PDS 1990)

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Abstract

Using a large multiprocessor, consisting of 100 processing nodes, in the area of data and knowledge processing poses challenging research and engineering questions. The PRISMA project presented here has addressed many of the problems encountered by the design and the construction of such a system. Among the results obtained are an implementation of a parallel object-oriented language, a hardware platform with efficient communication, and a distributed main-memory relational database system. Their combination forms a platform for further experimental research in several areas of distributed processing.

The PRISMA project is supported by the Dutch ”Stimuleringsprojectteam Informaticaonderzoek” (SPIN)

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  1. University of Twente, The Netherlands

    P. M. G. Apers

  2. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    L. O. Hertzberger

  3. Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    B. J. A. Hulshof & A. C. M. Oerlemans

  4. Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, The Netherlands

    M. L Kersten

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Apers, P.M.G., Hertzberger, L.O., Hulshof, B.J.A., Oerlemans, A.C.M., Kersten, M.L. (1991). PRISMA, a platform for experiments with parallelism. In: America, P. (eds) Parallel Database Systems. PDS 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 503. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54132-2_56

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