High Performance Computing Meets Databases
Gordon Haff · Computational Methods in Science and Technology · 2006
2 See our "POWERing the Performance Factory" and "IBM's DB2: Database for Enterprise' Masses". 3 See our "SGI Brings Big Iron to Linux" and "Altix Goes Modular".4 IBM's BlueGene, for example, uses a custom processing module built around a PowerPC core.See our "Blue Gene'sTeraflop Attack". 5 In truth, even vector processors don't handle every data element in parallel, but a single operation can queue up long strings of highly-efficient computation.