The design of the IRISS parallel database machine | SpringerLink
Skip to main content
Springer Nature Link
Log in

The design of the IRISS parallel database machine

  • Posters
  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1996)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1067))

Included in the following conference series:

  • 103 Accesses

Abstract

The decision support potential of large commercial relational databases is limited by the vast amounts of computing power required to perform complex queries on large datasets. Massively parallel processing offers the potential to open up new possibilities in on-line decision support by increasing by orders of magnitude the amount of power brought to bear on the problem. The authors believe, however, that ports of conventional RDBMS code onto parallel platforms are not capable of exploiting the true potential of such hardware.

The IRISS parallel database machine is based upon a software architecture which has been designed from first principles to be optimum for distributed memory massively parallel hardware architectures. The design of the system is outlined in the poster.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. ISO. Database Languages-SQL. ISO 9075:1992(E). 1992

    Google Scholar 

  2. R.Englandet al. The Performance of the Idioms Parallel Database Machine. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Computing and Transputer Applications (PACTA '92.). 1992.

    Google Scholar 

  3. P.Murray. Semantic Correctness in the Specification, Translation and Parallel Implementation of SQL Queries. PHd Thesis. University of Sheffield. 1993.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. National Transputer Support Centre, 5 Palmerston Road, S10 2TE, Sheffield

    David Walter & Jon Kerridge

Authors
  1. David Walter
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Jon Kerridge
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Heather Liddell Adrian Colbrook Bob Hertzberger Peter Sloot

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1996 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Walter, D., Kerridge, J. (1996). The design of the IRISS parallel database machine. In: Liddell, H., Colbrook, A., Hertzberger, B., Sloot, P. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1067. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61142-8_646

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61142-8_646

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-61142-4

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-49955-8

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation