Enterprise client - server technology: massively parallel processing for business
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London <<[u.a.]>>
Internat. Thomson Computer Press
1995
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| adam_text | Contents
Foreword ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction xv
1 The business forces driving fundamental changes
in large-scale computing technologies I
Transformation to the knowledge society 1
The history of large computers in the commercial environment 5
The information explosion 9
New business drivers— infomating vs automating 11
A shifting emphasis—concentration on effectiveness rather than
efficiency 12
New-enterprise computer users—the rise of marketing, purchasing,
engineering etc. 13
Business process re-engineering—IT supporting leaner, meaner
enterprises 14
Globalization and market fragmentation 16
Innovation and time to market as the new keys to success 18
Knowledge as the basis for competitive advantage 20
The need for the widest possible availability of shared knowledge 23
The impact on computer architectures and databases 24
2 Commercial MPP usage in a client/server world 27
MPP and RDBMS: a most suitable marriage 27
Parallel query is the killer application for MPP 33
3 User profiles and case studies 37
Everybody processes information 37
Generic profile of the early adopter of MPP 38
The business sectors leading the adoption of MPP 41
Illustrative case studies:
Insurance John Alden Life Insurance Company 44
Retail leisure Bass Taverns 47
Retail British Shoe Corporation 51
Manufacturing National Semiconductor Corp 55
V
vi Contents 4 The position on parallelism of the major
RDBMS ISVs 59
The RDBMS marketplace in the future 59
Some suggested purchasing heuristics 60
Oracle (Oracle Parallel Server) 65
IBM (DB2/6000) 69
Informix (On-Line Dynamic Server) 73
Sybase (System 10) 76
Tandem (Non-Stop SQL) 78
5 Supply-side technological forces driving
MPP adoption 83
The perennial need for more and cheaper computer power 83
In the data centre—only a little better 85
The hidden discontinuities in the power requirements of large-scale
systems 90
Business requirements for 100% availability of computer systems 95
Other factors mitigating against solutions based on traditional technology
for large-scale systems 97
MPP—overwhelming endorsement by hardware vendors 102
6 Converging technologies enabling MPP uptake 109
Client/server computing comes of age I O
Emergent lessons from a decade of client/server experiment 116
The five pillars of server computing in the commercial client/server
environment 122
UNIX—now acquiring true functionality for data centres 125
The commodity microprocessor 126
RDBMS as the de facto standard for enterprise databases 127
Everyday parallelism 129
7 The implications for client/server architectures
of the communications revolution 133
The fundamental significance of changing communications capabilities 133
Distributed computing—the motive power of the communications
revolution 136
The implications for communications of the client/server model 136
Third-generation communications—the revolution of switched digital
data (parallel communications) 141
Rightsiting : rightsizing plus 153
Contents vii
8 Parallel processing: some conceptual
fundamentals 157
Fundamentals of parallel processing 158
Latency parallelism (speed) 161
Throughput parallelism (capacity/size) 163
9 The important approaches to parallel hardware
architectures 169
Functional multiprocessing (FMP) 169
Shared-memory parallel processing (moderately parallel) 172
Distributed-memory parallel processing (massively parallel) 174
Moderately versus massively parallel processing 178
SMP s probable future 185
10 Critical issues for MPP hardware architectures
and systems in an RDBMS environment 189
The pre-eminence of the network: the key to the machine! 189
Scalability of the network 189
Availability and fault tolerance of the network 197
Usability of the network 199
Node-processor architecture 206
Support from open-systems commodity operating systems 209
The traditional holy grails of MPP—perhaps no longer canonical in
today s commercial setting 215
11 The RDBMS in an MPP environment 219
RDBMS parallel processing in perspective 219
The similarities between RDBMSs and operating systems 222
The three main elements of parallel RDBMS processing 223
Parallel SQL—query decomposition for parallel execution 235
Parallel administration—scalable database administration 238
12 Adoption strategies for the commercial user 241
MPP: can it be ignored? 241
Commercial MPP usage over the next three years 246
The MPP server as data warehouse for the enterprise 248
The second-generation data warehouse 254
Migration, redevelopment or new development? 255
Coexistence or replacement? 258
MPP RDBMS: not as difficult as it may seem 260
Exceptional candidate applications for parallel-processing solutions 265
Server parallelism: a responsibility of vendors 266
viii Contents 13 The future 269
New markets and uses—the future prominence of personal
computing 269
Tomorrow s consumer computing servers—orders of magnitude bigger
than commercial computing today 271
Important likely MPP applications of the near to medium term 271
The implications for business today 273
Appendix 281
Glossary 283
Index 295
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Contents
Foreword ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction xv
1 The business forces driving fundamental changes
in large-scale computing technologies I
Transformation to the knowledge society 1
The history of large computers in the commercial environment 5
The information explosion 9
New business drivers—'infomating' vs automating 11
A shifting emphasis—concentration on effectiveness rather than
efficiency 12
New-enterprise computer users—the rise of marketing, purchasing,
engineering etc. 13
Business process re-engineering—IT supporting leaner, meaner
enterprises 14
Globalization and market fragmentation 16
Innovation and time to market as the new keys to success 18
Knowledge as the basis for competitive advantage 20
The need for the widest possible availability of shared knowledge 23
The impact on computer architectures and databases 24
2 Commercial MPP usage in a client/server world 27
MPP and RDBMS: a most suitable marriage 27
'Parallel query' is the 'killer' application for MPP 33
3 User profiles and case studies 37
Everybody processes information 37
Generic profile of the early adopter of MPP 38
The business sectors leading the adoption of MPP 41
Illustrative case studies:
Insurance John Alden Life Insurance Company 44
Retail leisure Bass Taverns 47
Retail British Shoe Corporation 51
Manufacturing National Semiconductor Corp 55
V
vi Contents 4 The position on parallelism of the major
RDBMS ISVs 59
The RDBMS marketplace in the future 59
Some suggested purchasing heuristics 60
Oracle (Oracle Parallel Server) 65
IBM (DB2/6000) 69
Informix (On-Line Dynamic Server) 73
Sybase (System 10) 76
Tandem (Non-Stop SQL) 78
5 Supply-side technological forces driving
MPP adoption 83
The perennial need for more and cheaper computer power 83
In the data centre—only a little better 85
The hidden discontinuities in the power requirements of large-scale
systems 90
Business requirements for 100% availability of computer systems 95
Other factors mitigating against solutions based on traditional technology
for large-scale systems 97
MPP—overwhelming endorsement by hardware vendors 102
6 Converging technologies enabling MPP uptake 109
Client/server computing comes of age I'O
Emergent lessons from a decade of client/server experiment 116
The five pillars of server computing in the commercial client/server
environment 122
UNIX—now acquiring true functionality for data centres 125
The commodity microprocessor 126
RDBMS as the de facto standard for enterprise databases 127
Everyday parallelism 129
7 The implications for client/server architectures
of the communications revolution 133
The fundamental significance of changing communications capabilities 133
Distributed computing—the motive power of the communications
revolution 136
The implications for communications of the client/server model 136
Third-generation communications—the revolution of switched digital
data (parallel communications) 141
'Rightsiting': rightsizing plus 153
Contents vii
8 Parallel processing: some conceptual
fundamentals 157
Fundamentals of parallel processing 158
Latency parallelism (speed) 161
Throughput parallelism (capacity/size) 163
9 The important approaches to parallel hardware
architectures 169
Functional multiprocessing (FMP) 169
Shared-memory parallel processing (moderately parallel) 172
Distributed-memory parallel processing (massively parallel) 174
Moderately versus massively parallel processing 178
SMP's probable future 185
10 Critical issues for MPP hardware architectures
and systems in an RDBMS environment 189
The pre-eminence of the network: the key to the machine! 189
Scalability of the network 189
Availability and fault tolerance of the network 197
Usability of the network 199
Node-processor architecture 206
Support from open-systems commodity operating systems 209
The traditional 'holy grails' of MPP—perhaps no longer canonical in
today's commercial setting 215
11 The RDBMS in an MPP environment 219
RDBMS parallel processing in perspective 219
The similarities between RDBMSs and operating systems 222
The three main elements of parallel RDBMS processing 223
Parallel SQL—query decomposition for parallel execution 235
Parallel administration—scalable database administration 238
12 Adoption strategies for the commercial user 241
MPP: can it be ignored? 241
Commercial MPP usage over the next three years 246
The MPP server as data warehouse for the enterprise 248
The second-generation data warehouse 254
Migration, redevelopment or new development? 255
Coexistence or replacement? 258
MPP RDBMS: not as difficult as it may seem 260
Exceptional candidate applications for parallel-processing solutions 265
Server parallelism: a responsibility of vendors 266
viii Contents 13 The future 269
New markets and uses—the future prominence of 'personal
computing' 269
Tomorrow's consumer computing servers—orders of magnitude bigger
than 'commercial' computing today 271
Important likely MPP applications of the near to medium term 271
The implications for business today 273
Appendix 281
Glossary 283
Index 295 |
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