Title:

The NON-VON Database Machine: An Overview

Author(s):

Shaw, David Elliot
Stolfo, Salvatore
Ibrahim, Hussein
Hillyer, Bruce K.
Andrews, Jim
Wiederhold, Gio

Date:

1981

Type:

Technical reports

Department:

Computer Science

Permanent URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:11530

Series:

Columbia University Computer Science Technical Reports

Part Number:

CUCS-022-81

Notes:

This research was supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under contract N00039-80-G-0132.

Publisher:

Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

Publisher Location:

New York

Abstract:

The NON-VON machine (portions of which are presently under construction in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia, in cooperation with the Knowledge Base Management Systems Project at Stanford) was designed to apply computational parallelism on a rather massive scale to a large share of the information processing functions now performed by digital computers. The NON-VON architecture comprises a tree-structured Primary Processing Subsystem (PPS), which we are implementing using custom nMOS VLSI chips, Secondary Processing Subsystem (SPS) incorporating modified, highly intelligent disk drives. NON-VON should permit particularly dramatic performance improvements in very large scale data manipulation tasks, including relational database operations and external sorting. This paper briefly describes the structure and function of the NON-VON machine and its constituent processing subsystems.

Subject(s):

Computer science
Information science

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