In conventional modeling approaches, large transients are difficult to capture and calculate. This tutorial will survey a variety of modeling techniques applied to problems of stability in computer performance analysis. Some of these are due to the author and have not been made accessible outside the highly technical literature until now. The centralized computing paradigm has waned. The new issue is cost-effective scalability.
Parallel processing offers a solution.
This intensive two-day seminar , explores the background and technology behind the perennial fascination with parallelism, the successes and failures associated with the technology, a review of parallel platform and parallel database architectures, and an exhaustive comparison of the current crop of commercially viable MPPs. The class also discusses performance and capacity planning issues. Participants will evaluate a detailed study of two very successful MPP architectures from Tandem and Teradata, and will examine what these mature MPP systems can tell us about the newer Open MPPs. A key theme throughout the class is the importance of commodity economics in influencing which of the plethora of MPP architectures is likely to make it to the year 2000. All Rights Reserved.