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Optimal Partitioning of Data Bases across Multiple Servers in a LAN

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  • Lawrence Berman

    (Merrill Lynch & Company, Incorporated, Management Science Group, PO Box 9065, Princeton, New Jersey 08543-9065)

  • Raj Nigam

    (Merrill Lynch & Company, Incorporated, Management Science Group, PO Box 9065, Princeton, New Jersey 08543-9065)

Abstract

In 1987, Merrill Lynch was planning to establish about 450 local area networks (LANs) at its retail branch offices. Attached to the LANs would be personal computers for over 10,000 retail brokers, data-base servers providing customer and product data, and communication servers for interacting with remote systems and downloading data to the local data bases. The firm had not resolved how many data-base servers would be needed. We partitioned the data bases across multiple servers on a single LAN and developed an analytical methodology to determine the minimum number of data-base servers needed. We showed that, at most, two servers were needed for any branch office.

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  • Lawrence Berman & Raj Nigam, 1992. "Optimal Partitioning of Data Bases across Multiple Servers in a LAN," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 22(2), pages 18-27, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:22:y:1992:i:2:p:18-27
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.22.2.18
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    1. Raj Nigam, 2008. "Structuring and Sustaining Excellence in Management Science at Merrill Lynch," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 38(3), pages 202-209, June.

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