A back-end computer for data base management
Communications of the ACM
Operating Systems
Evaluation of conversion to a back-end data base management system
ACM '76 Proceedings of the 1976 annual conference
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Evaluation of alternate data base machine designs
CAW '80 Proceedings of the fifth workshop on Computer architecture for non-numeric processing
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Most data processing installations utilize a single large mainframe computer to execute their three principal software functions - data base management, teleprocessing, and batch processing. Recently, distributed processing systems composed of a network of minicomputers have been proposed as alternatives to the single large mainframe. The study described herein determines the conditions under which it is feasible, in terms of performance, to distribute the data base, teleprocessing, and batch functions to configurations of two or three processors. The simulation results indicate that distributing a software data processing function provides performance benefits if the demands for that function are heavy.