Platform for Interactive Demographic Information System

The cost of using massive census and survey data in terms of dollars, time, technical skills, and sexpertise usually limits use at the present time to a few well supported research centers. Hence themany potential users are not benefiting from these public resources. Creation of an interactivehardware/software/data/instruction system, based on PDQ-Explore, that is capable of providing accessanalysis to a large number of users via the Internet can revolutionize research, education, and polithe social sciences, government, and industry can all benefit. The research conducted in this projecof utilizing multiple processor systems and high performance disk subsystems in parallel applicationinnovative platform for supporting interactive access to massive data sets. The challenge is to incohardware into an information system that will provide researchers and the larger public with tools fmeaningful access to data.