@InProceedings{keane:commercial,
  author = {J. A. Keane and T. N. Franklin and A. J. Grant and R. Sumner and M.
  Q. Xu},
  title = {Commercial Users' Requirements for Parallel Systems},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1993 DAGS/PC Symposium},
  year = {1993},
  month = {June},
  pages = {15--25},
  organization = {Dartmouth Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies},
  address = {Hanover, NH},
  keywords = {parallel architecture, parallel I/O, databases, commercial
  requirements, pario-bib},
  abstract = {This paper reports on part of an on-going analysis of parallel
  systems for commercial users. The particular focus of this paper is on the
  requirements that commercial users, in particular users with financial
  database systems, have of parallel systems. \par The issues of concern to
  such users differ from those of concern to science and engineering users.
  Performance of the parallel system is not the only, or indeed primary, reason
  for moving to such systems for commercial users. Infra-structure issues are
  important, such as system availability and inter-working with existing
  systems. \par These issues are discussed in the context of a banking
  customer's requirements. The various technical concerns that these
  requirements impose are discussed in terms of commercially available
  systems.}
}