Adaptive use of a cluster of PCs for data warehousing applications: Some problems and issues

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 698-703

  Rudra, Amit ^a   Gopalan, Raj ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Cluster of workstations; Data warehousing; OLAP; Parallel data warehousing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; CLUSTER OF WORKSTATIONS; NON-DEDICATED CLUSTER; OLAP; OLAP SYSTEM; ON-LINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING; SCALE-UP;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

DATA WAREHOUSES;

EID: 0005838157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/338407.338546     Document Type: Conference Paper

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