RDF-3X: a RISC-style engine for RDF
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Low-power amdahl-balanced blades for data intensive computing
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
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Proceedings of the 2010 TeraGrid Conference
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Proceedings of the 2010 ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
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Computing in Science and Engineering
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Presented is a speculative server blade architecture called a FlashBlade that combines 100x I/O performance in both latency and bandwidth with balanced computing. The blade consists of a standard multi-core CPU with attached DRAM. It uses a fast interconnect, such as Intel's QuickPath, to communicate with a FPGA router called the X1. This router handles traffic to the C1 complexes and off-blade. Each C1 complex is a System on a Chip with Package on Package DRAM, connected to local flash memory. There are numerous complexes, giving tremendous I/O performance and computational balance. A large design space of parameters such as flash size, number of complexes, and link bandwidth between each C1 and the X1 is available for power and performance optimization. A single blade server constructed from these blades, just 12.25 inches high and drawing about 10 KW, could support a few hundred thousand basic web searches a second on 1 billion pages. It could also provide triple store performance 100x greater than achievable now for datasets of 6 TB and scales to petabyte datasets although at somewhat reduced performance; with numerous applications to defense, commerce, and science.