MPP
Abbreviation with 3 meanings
| Stands for | Master of Public Policy |
|---|---|
| Meanings | 3 |
| Categories | Education & Academia, Government & Politics, Technology & Computing |
MPP has three meanings. The most common are Master of Public Policy (degree) and Member of Provincial Parliament (world government); it can also stand for Massively parallel processing.
Meanings of MPP at a glance
| # | MPP stands for | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Master of Public Policy | Education & Academia › Degree |
| 2 | Member of Provincial Parliament | Government & Politics › World Government |
| 3 | Massively parallel processing | Technology & Computing › Data & Database |
1. Master of Public Policy
Education & Academia · Degree Abbreviations
Two-year graduate degree centered on policy analysis, economics, statistics and program evaluation, preparing graduates to design and assess government policies. Leading programs include Harvard Kennedy School, Berkeley's Goldman School, Chicago's Harris School and Michigan's Ford School.
Example: The think tank hired two MPP graduates to model the effects of the proposed tax credit.
Written M.P.P. The MPP is more quantitative than the MPA, which leans toward management and operations, though graduates compete for many of the same jobs. Many programs require a summer policy internship and a client-based capstone analysis in the second year.
2. Member of Provincial Parliament
Government & Politics · World Government Abbreviations
Title of elected members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada's most populous province, which sits at Queen's Park in Toronto. Ontario uses MPP instead of the MLA title used in most other provinces.
Example: The local MPP raised the hospital's emergency room closures at Queen's Park.
Ontario's legislature has 124 members, each elected from a single riding by first-past-the-post. Federal members from Ontario are called MPs, a frequent source of confusion. Quebec's provincial legislators use yet another title, MNA.
3. Massively parallel processing
Technology & Computing · Data & Database Abbreviations
An architecture in which many independent nodes, each with its own CPU, memory and storage, work on parts of a query at the same time. Analytical databases such as Teradata, Amazon Redshift and Greenplum use it to scan billions of rows quickly.
Example: The MPP warehouse splits the fact table across 32 nodes, so full scans finish in seconds.
Data is distributed across nodes by a key, so choosing the right distribution column avoids shuffling rows between nodes during joins. Teradata, founded in 1979, pioneered commercial MPP databases. Cloud warehouses separate storage from compute but still parallelize queries in a similar way.
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