[FRIAM] Distributed Urban Information Systems

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Are we at a similar threshold now with GIS/3D?
>   
I haven't worked on GIS stuff lately, but I am interested in 
technologies for high performance multidimensional query.   I've 
experimented with some products like TimesTen from Oracle, but wish for 
something like 
http://www-vis.lbl.gov/Events/SC05/HDF5FastQuery/index.html but without 
layering over O.S. system calls, i.e. data stored in native format with 
bitmap indicies or similar to accelerate query.  

Hmm, maybe there's a market for scientific data appliances (no not file 
servers!) say running some microkernel/exokernel that take remote 
procedure calls over Infiniband or such?    Calls conceptually like SQL, 
but intended to be way way faster...

Marcus