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| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
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| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
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| Created: | Fri Jun 12 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 23 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1348 |
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1060.0. "Massively Parallel Oracle" by BEAGLE::GODFRIND (Alvin Toliver was here) Wed Jan 15 1992 16:34
Article: 7470
From: [email protected] (Simon Brown)
Subject: Meiko commercial product announcement - massively parallel Oracle
Organization: Meiko Scientific
MEIKO ANNOUNCES COMMERIAL PRODUCT RELEASE
OF MASSIVELY PARALLEL ORACLE
Meiko announces the completion of the beta release phase of the
Relational Datacache (RDC), and its general availability as a
full commercial product. Customer RDC installations have now been
operating succesfully for more than one year.
The RDC is a highly scalable MIMD distributed memory machine,
which uses multiple 40 MHZ SPARC processors to run an implementa-
tion of the standard ORACLE 6.2 relational database system, above
SunOS Unix. It is used as a backend SQL machine, a network
server, or as a standalone machine.
Entry level machines can be configured with 2 SPARC processors,
and can be upgraded, one processor at a time, up to machines with
in excess of 100 processors. Each node delivers approximately 30
TPC-B style TPS. Performance increases linearly - every node ad-
ded to the machine contributes the same performance.
Each SPARC processing node consists of a 40MHz SPARC processor,
with 2 Inmos transputer T800 processors used as communications
controllers. Processing nodes interact with other processing
nodes, and with i/o controllers, only by means of high speed
serial communications links. There is no common bus or shared
memory, and no limit to the number of processors that can be com-
bined in a single system. The biggest payoff from this architec-
ture is linear price performance. Mainframe-size systems - and
beyond - deliver workstation cost/performance. These are often
more than ten times better than equivalent mainframe hardware.
Meiko use a unique heterogenous architecture which means that all
Meiko machines may incorporate any of Meiko's range of compute
and i/o cards as well as RDBMS hardware. These include i860
nodes, graphics and high speed interfaces.
Enquiries to:
Patrick Evans
Phone: (+44) (0) 454 616171
Fax : (+44) (0) 454 618188
Email: [email protected]
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