Internet Data Processing

Application Areas: Search, Cloud Computing, Data Aggregation, Data Dissemination

Internet search engines, as well as new cloud computing services, adds to the demand for ultra-scale data centers. 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.

 Information Retieval - In a project sponsored by Matrixware Information Services and supported by Mitrionics, researchers from the University of Glasgow conducted comparative tests to measure the performance differences between running Information Retrieval algorithms on traditional processors versus FPGAs. In these tests, the Mitrion Accelerated Computing Platform achieved a 20x performance increase and ninety percent power savings over an unaccelerated solution when running standard application algorithms for document filtering. Click here for details on Mitrion accelerating information retrieval applications.

 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