{"title":"An Optical Processing Unit for Relational Database Operations","authors":"P. Mitkas, P. Berra","doi":"10.1364/optcomp.1991.me11","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The management of very large databases (order of hundreds of gigabytes), combined with the real-time response requirement, poses a formidable task even for today's powerful computers. Special-purpose computers dedicated to database management, known as database machines, must provide adequate secondary storage to accommodate the database, high transfer rates to the processing units, and a large degree of parallelism.","PeriodicalId":302010,"journal":{"name":"Optical Computing","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1992-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Optical Computing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/optcomp.1991.me11","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Abstract
The management of very large databases (order of hundreds of gigabytes), combined with the real-time response requirement, poses a formidable task even for today's powerful computers. Special-purpose computers dedicated to database management, known as database machines, must provide adequate secondary storage to accommodate the database, high transfer rates to the processing units, and a large degree of parallelism.