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Answer Posted / sai

Teradata Architecture is shared nothing architecture(Data
stored in one AMP can not shared with another AMP)
It(TD Architecture) mainly consist of 4 components
PE,BYNET,AMP,vdisks
PE-Parsing Engine -The main function of PE is it handeles
the user session and checks for syntax and gives the
execution plan for all AMPS
BYNET- is banyan n/w it is communication layer b/w PE and
AMP whatever execution plan given by PE is transfered to
all AMPs with the help of BYNET.It also sends answerset to
the PE from the AMPs
AMP-Access Module processor-It is a virtual processor and
it handles some amount of databse space.It also uses
DBsubmanagement system to process query(like
create/manipulation)
vdisk-Virtual disk-Each AMP consist of its own vdisk to
maintain their Data

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