IBM Intelligent Bricks project - Petabytes and beyond

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 50, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 181-197

  Wilcke, Winfried W ^a   Garner, Robert B ^a   Fleiner, Claudio ^a   Freitas, Richard F ^a   Golding, Richard A ^a   Glider, Joseph S ^a   Kenchammana Hosekote, Deepak R ^a   Hafner, James L ^a   Mohiuddin, K Moidin ^a   Rao, K K ^a   Becker Szendy, Ralph A ^a   Wong, Theodore M ^a   Zaki, Omer A ^a   Hernandez, Manuel ^a   Fernandez, Kenneth R ^a   Huels, Harald ^b   Lenk, Heinz ^c   Smolin, Klaus ^b   Ries, Manfred ^b   Goettert, Carsten ^b   Picunko, Thomas ^d   Rubin, Barry J ^d   Kahn, Howard ^e   Loo, Timothy ^f   more..

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MACHINES; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SERVERS;

INTELLIGENT BRICKS PROJECT; PETABYTES; PROTOTYPE STORAGE SERVER;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646035520     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.502.0181     Document Type: Review

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