Internet Data Processing
Application Areas: Search, Data Aggregation, Data Dissemination

Internet search engines, as well as new services such as video-on-demand and Internet telephony, adds to the demand for ultra-scale data centers to power these services. Already in 2005, data centers used 1.2% of total U.S. electric power.* Today, data centers are built in areas close to power sources to ensure energy supplies to meet ever increasing needs.

As existing services are increasing the number of users, and as new, more advanced, services are introduced, increasing demand will be put on data center power and cooling.

Challenge
Increase power efficiency of ultra-scale data centers to allow for introduction of new services and scaling to more users.

Mitrion Solutions
FPGAs have been proven efficient at processing large amounts of text based data. Applications could be search, filtering, character set conversions etc.

 Text search - A simple text search algorithm has been implemented on the Mitrion Virtual Processor that is capable of simultaneously searching for any of 4000 strings in stream of data corresponding to a 10Gbit Ethernet link.

 Mitrion Accelerated grep - The Mitrion Virtual Processor has been used to accelerate the standard UNIX grep function, providing FPGA-accelerated regular expression searches.

*J. G. Koomey, Estimating total power consumption by servers in the U.S. and the world, Report published by AMD, Febuary 15, 2007