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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…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Archive
Alexander S. Szalay, Peter Kunszt, Anirudha Thakar +2
The next-generation astronomy archives will cover most of the universe at fine resolution in many wavelengths. One of the first of these projects, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDS…
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…
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…
Designing and Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Alexander S. Szalay, Peter Kunszt, Ani Thakar +1
The next-generation astronomy digital archives will cover most of the universe at fine resolution in many wave-lengths, from X-rays to ultraviolet, optical, and infrared. The archi…