RE: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING

This is really getting OT, and there have been quite a few mergers, but they were once called something like Northern Telephone and are based some where in Canada.

Ian

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which telecom company?
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> Oracle was by no means ready to support a database as large as
> Babar's.

When the experiment began, the biggest Oracle databases were around one terabyte. There was also the RD45 project at CERN which weighed heavily on the decision. If we were to do it now, we would probably use Oracle.
>
> I know that at least one major telecomunications company uses or use
> to

use objectivity to hold switch information.
>
> Ian
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> how many people are using objectivity? seems like object oriented
databases are only used in academia? i went to the website and didnt see much documentation.
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> why did you go with that over oracle?
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> > We currently hist the world's largest database.
> >
> >
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http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/Public/Computing/Databases/index.sht
> ml
> >
> > But LHC will be larger. This experiment preceded the idea of the
> > grid.
> No doubt, some of the work we have done to share the data among
collaborators will be used in grid computing. We also use components which are designed for grid computing. So I gues the answer to your question is yes, in part.
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> > Ian
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> > are you using a grid at stanford? how much data do they have at
> > CERN?
> > >
> > > From: "MacGregor, Ian A." <ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
> > > Date: 2003/12/03 Wed PM 02:49:32 EST
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> > > Subject: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING
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> > > http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1008211
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> > > Ian MacGregor
> > > Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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