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Implementing PRISMA/DB in an OOPL

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PRISMA/DB is implemented in a parallel object-oriented language to gain insight in the usage of parallelism. This environment allows us to experiment with parallelism by simply changing the allocation of objects to the processors of the PRISMA machine. These objects are obtained by a strictly modular design of PRISMA/DB. Communication between the objects is required to cooperatively handle the various tasks, but it limits the potential for parallelism. From this approach, we hope to gain a better understanding of parallelism, which can be used to enhance the performance of PRISMA/DB.

The work reported in this document was conducted as part of the PRISMA project, a joint effort with Philips Research Eindhoven, partially supported by the Dutch “Stimuleringsprojectteam Informaticaonderzoek (SPIN)”.

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  1. University of Twente, The Netherlands

    Annita N. Wilschut, Paul W. P. J. Grefen & Peter M. G. Apers

  2. Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, The Netherlands

    Martin L. Kersten

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Wilschut, A.N., Grefen, P.W.P.J., Apers, P.M.G., Kersten, M.L. (1989). Implementing PRISMA/DB in an OOPL. In: Boral, H., Faudemay, P. (eds) Database Machines. IWDM 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 368. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51324-8_30

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