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Quiz: How Parallel Should Processes Be?
By Baselinemag
2002-11-01

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Even today's shiny new processors can get bogged down for days in a multiterabyte data warehouse. Find out if you need to build a better processing strategy.

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Your data warehousing requirements exceed 3 terabytes.

Your data warehousing requirements exceed 18 terabytes.

You need answers in minutes, but have to wait days.

Capacity and performance are far more important than price.

You have symmetric multiprocessing-based data marts that you want to consolidate.

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Find out more in Baseline's Primer on massively parallel processing and accelerating the data warehouse.




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