COLLOQUIUM Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Carolina Introduction to the Teradata RDMS: Research and Development Opportunities at USC Natalia Pakhomkina Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Carolina Date: March 1, 2002 (Friday) Time: 3:45-4:45PM Place: Swearingen 1A03 (Faculty Lounge) Abstract The Teradata system is a parallel processing architecture designed to provide fast access to very large online storage. This architecture serves as the foundation for the Teradata Relational Databases Management System (RDBMS), which is one of the leading systems for the development of mission-critical, fault-tolerant decision support applications. This seminar will provide introductory technical knowledge about the Teradata RDBMS, including the underlying parallel architecture, the data protection and data redundancy schemes, and the scalability features that make the Teradata architecture unique. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of South Carolina (USC) received a Teradata system 5100 in the summer of 2000. The system is made up of 80 processors and 400 online disks that offer 1.7 terabytes of online storage. The system is being used in teaching graduate courses in data mining and in collaborative research that involves CSE, Mechanical Engineering and the SC National Guard. The spectrum of this research ranges from the storage of massive volumes of data to the implementation of data mining algorithms that take advantage of the Teradata parallelism, scalability, and speed of processing. A system of this size can support many other activities. One of the purposes of this seminar is to present the capabilities of the system and invite our colleagues to use this powerful machine. Natalia Pakhomkina received a Bachelor of Science in Economics in April 1997 and a Master of Science in Management (Summa Cum Laude) in 1998, both from Taganrog State University, in Taganrog, Russia. In August 2001, she received a Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering from the University of South Carolina, and since then she has been in the PhD program of the Computer Science and Engineering Department there. Her areas of interest include Database Design and Development, Data Warehousing Technologies, Data Mining and CRM. She is a Certified Teradata Specialist and was an intern at NCR during the summer of 2000.