Parallel Methods For Un-paralleled Events

摘要

Acme enterprises, a long time IBM customer, is currently utilizing a , System i with multiple CPUs. The company has a number of batch processes that perform mass update, delete, and insert operations against large transaction tables using Record Level Access (RLA) techniques. Several years ago, after upgrading to their first multi-CPU system, Acme IT staff members discovered that to take advantage of CPU parallelism, they must multithread their current batch applications.