Newsgroups: comp.database,comp.sys.transputer From: Richard Beton Subject: Re: Transputer Databases Organization: Roke Manor Research Limited Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:58:03 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <34E1E6AB.36D72E6A@roke.co.uk.no.spam.thankyou> James H S Westwood wrote: > Hi, > > I'm searching for information on Parallel Transputer Databases and their > applications. > > Is there any info out there? Prof. Jon Kerridge at Napier University is working on parallel databases. mailto:j.kerridge@dcs.napier.ac.uk and http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/osg/home.html If you contact Jon, give him my regards! Rick PS there were some remarkably neat ideas for synchronising complex database engines across parallel machines *really* efficiently using occam3. Alas, no-one has yet (to my knowledge) implemented these ideas. But if you happen to know different... -- Richard Beton BSc CPhys MInstP Roke Manor Research Limited --------- Standard Disclaimer about my own views etc etc -------- --------- My mail client accepts rich text (HTML) mail -------- Welsh Highland Railway: http://www.whr.co.uk/WHR/WHR.html