"Querying the Internet with PIER" is an interesting recent paper.

Authored at Berkeley -- same spawning grounds as PostgreSQL.
;-)

Authors:
Ryan Huebsch, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Nick Lanham, Boon Thau Loo, Scott
Shenker, Ion Stoica

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> Sailesh Krishnamurthy
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> IMHO the best references to parallelizing query plans are in 
> the Volcano papers. The Exchange operator is a really clean 
> abstraction - the idea is to place the Exchange operator in 
> query plans and that way you don't have to paralellize any 
> other operator. Exchange takes care of managing the IPC 
> queues and also worries about whether or not you have to, 
> say, "rehash the data", or "broadcast the data to all other 
> processes" or "direct the data to a single node" ... 
> 
> I'd suggest reading the following paper:
> 
> "Encapsulation of parallelism in the Volcano query processing system"
> 
> By Goetz Graefe in SIGMOD 1990. 
> 
> Link: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=98720
> 
> The above link also has references to Gamma but I really like 
> the exposition in the Volcano/Exchange work much better. 
> 
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Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:41:55 -0700
"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com>
Re: APR 1.0 released