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Architecture of Database Systems
Assignment 4, due April 27, 2002
Sketch modifications to Gamma that would support possible iron
configurations that might occur in the near future, including:
- the possibility of ganging together 1000 to 10,000 nodes on some sort
of a high speed LAN. Hence, you need to scale Gamma to this level of
CPU/memory nodes.
- the possibility of supporting a 10 Pbyte data base on 10,000 drives,
each 1Tbyte in size. Hence, you need to scale Gamma to 10,000 disk
drives.
- the likelihood of 1Tbyte drives will mean that a conventional data
base of (say) 10 Tbytes can be stored on only 10 drives. Hence, you
need to scale Gamma to provide very high performance for conventional
size DBMSs.