A data base machine design and evaluation facility
Raymond A. Liuzzi, P. Bruce Berra · 2005
Recent announcements in the computer field concerning semiconductor technology have motivated interest in the area of data base management and computer architecture to develop data base machines (DBM). The variety of architectural options available for defining a DBM has initiated a research effort to develop a methodology to help design and evaluate these options. Selected subsets of a DBM can be designed and implemented in specialized architectures called special purpose function architectures(SPFA's). These SPFA's can perform data base management functions, in hardware, that are currently being done by software modules. As part of this research, a highly specialized environment is currently being studied in a joint research effort between Syracuse University and USAF/ RADC to integrate the tools necessary for designing and evaluating DBM architectures. This environment is called a Data Base Machine Design and Evaluation Facility. Tasks to perform a study of the DBMDEF are described in this paper.