Keywords Lisp, parallel architectures, Prolog, relational database management system
Start Date: 04 January 1989 / Duration: 48 months / Status: completed
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a large-scale, distributed parallel information server supporting extended relational database technology for the commercial marketplace
EDS is targeted at the main business sectors of the industrial partners. These sectors need large-scale information servers supporting (extended) Relational Database (RDB) technology. EDS can be introduced into customer installations as an accelerator to give an order of magnitude improvement in the cost/performance ratio of existing applications. The development of the database extensions and the support of Lisp and Prolog will give EDS the capability of extending the functionality of applications.
A large-scale distributed store parallel processing system including an RDB subsystem, Lisp and Prolog language subsystems and a UNIX microkernel operating system has been implemented. The porting of applications, representing the target market, is also included, giving a strong integration focus to the project.
The EDS technologies and components have been developed over the last 4 years. The final year, covered by the follow-on EDS II project (6057), is mainly devoted to system integration.
In practice, the EDS project has involved the design and implementation of a parallel hardware machine and a parallel machine executive, EMEX, to support the EDS parallel database base management system (DBMS). Moreover, a number of AI programming language sub-systems -parallel LISP and ElipSys, parallel logic programming system -have been developed within EDS.
ICL has launched its Goldrush MegaServer open systems database server based on the results of this project; Bull plans to use the database technology in future database products; and SNI intends to introduce new parallel hardware into its data-processing product lines.
Colin J. Skelton
ICL LTD
Wenlock Way
West Gorton
UK-Manchester M12 5DR
tel: +44 61 2231301
fax: +44 61 223 0482
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Coordinator
Siemens AG [D]
Partners
BULL SA [F]
ECRC GmbH [D]
ICL Ltd [UK]
Associate Partners
Chambre de Commerce et Industrie Paris (CCIP) [F]
Chorus Systemes [F]
Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine [UK]
Inesc [P]
Infosys [F]
Inria [F]
Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme [D]
Systems & Management Spa [I]
Telefonica Sistemas SA [E]
Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña [E]
University of AthensI[GR]
University of Bristol [UK]
University of Heriot-Watt [UK]
University of Manchester [UK]
University of East Anglia [UK]
EDS - 2025, December 1993
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