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Scalability Terminology: Farms, Clones, Partitions, Packs, RACS and RAPS
Bill Devlin, Jim Gray, Bill Laing +1
Defines a vocabulary for scaleable systems: Geoplexes, Farms, Clones, RACS, RAPS, clones, partitions, and packs and dicusses the design tradeoffs of using clones, partitons, and pa…
cs.GL1999
What Next? A Dozen Information-Technology Research Goals
Jim Gray
Charles Babbage's vision of computing has largely been realized. We are on the verge of realizing Vannevar Bush's Memex. But, we are some distance from passing the Turing Test. The…
cs.DB1999
Microsoft TerraServer: A Spatial Data Warehouse
Tom Barclay Jim Gray Don Slutz
The TerraServer stores aerial, satellite, and topographic images of the earth in a SQL database available via the Internet. It is the world's largest online atlas, combining five t…