The Petacomp Machine - A MIMD Cluster for Parallel Pattern-mining

Multiple instruction stream-single data stream (MISD) architectures have not found many practical applications in supercomputing. We present a multiple instruction stream-multiple data stream (MIMD) cluster implementation that uses MISD search processors with extreme pattern mining performance as a...

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Published in:2006 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing pp. 1 - 10
Main Authors: Birkeland, O.R., Snove, O., Halaas, A., Nedland, M., Saetrom, P.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.09.2006
Subjects:
Costs
DNA
Energy consumption
Genetics
Hardware
Libraries
Probes
RNA
Sequences
Supercomputers
ISBN:1424403278, 9781424403271
ISSN:1552-5244
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Summary:Multiple instruction stream-single data stream (MISD) architectures have not found many practical applications in supercomputing. We present a multiple instruction stream-multiple data stream (MIMD) cluster implementation that uses MISD search processors with extreme pattern mining performance as a building block. We use PCI cards that hold sixteen search processors with local memory to build a relatively small cluster of five PC nodes with six PCI cards each. This cluster can handle anything between 64 independent queries at 48 GB per second, to 30,720 independent queries at 100 MB per second. The cluster's performance characteristics are such that we can easily scale the system to 10 15 operations per second with containable overhead using just 100 nodes. Further, the solution has lower power consumption and memory bandwidth requirements than comparable technologies.
ISBN:1424403278
9781424403271
ISSN:1552-5244
DOI:10.1109/CLUSTR.2006.311838