Title :
Complementary processing: a supercomputer/personal computer US census database project
Author :
Burton, Orville Vernon
Author_Institution :
Dept. of History, Illinois Univ., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
The author discusses the history and role of the US Census. He identifies some of the problems of handling and manipulating such large amounts of data. He describes the Supercomputer History Project, in which the speed of a supercomputer is combined with the versatility of a microcomputing environment to deal with census data
Keywords :
database management systems; government data processing; US census database project; complementary processing; microcomputing environment; personal computer; supercomputer; Agriculture; Databases; Games; History; Job shop scheduling; Laboratories; Manufacturing; Microcomputers; Statistics; Supercomputers;
Conference_Titel :
Supercomputing 88. Vol.II: Science and Applications., Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8923-4
DOI :
10.1109/SUPERC.1988.74143
