National Lotteries: An Exercise in Parallel Data Management Design

Kerridge, Jon M.; North, Siobhan

Abstract

The advent of a National Lottery in the United Kingdom prompted the thought about how one would design a highly parallel system to manage such an activity, especially, as the solution adopted by the lottery company was to use a parallel database machine. The fact that the selected machine does not use a database management system but uses bespoke software makes the exercise even more interesting. The aim of this design exercise is to investigate how a highly parallel scalable computer system could be constructed using a transputer based architecture.

Citation

Kerridge, J. M., & North, S. (1995, December). National Lotteries: An Exercise in Parallel Data Management Design. Presented at Transputer Applications and Systems ’95

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: Transputer Applications and Systems ’95
• Publication Date: 1995-01
• Deposit Date: Jul 25, 2019
• Publisher: IOS Press
• Pages: 441
• Series Title: Concurrent Systems Engineering Series
• Series Number: 46
• Series ISSN: 1383-7575
• Book Title: Transputer Applications and Systems ’95
• ISBN: 978-90-5199-235-9
• Keywords: parallel databases; database management systems; transputer
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1996085