CISE Research Instrumentation: Cluster Computing for Knowledge Discovery in Diverse Data Sets

EIA-9986042 George Karypis明尼苏达大学CISE研究仪器：集群计算在不同的数据集知识发现明尼苏达大学计算机科学工程系将购买以下设备，这些设备将致力于支持计算机和信息科学与工程的研究。 所要求的仪器包括10个双处理器Dell 410工作站（共10 GB主内存）、一个CISCO Catalyst 4000千兆交换机和一个Hitachi 5750 E RAID系统（共360 GB存储）。 这些设备将用于组成一个适合于数据和计算密集型应用的计算机集群，主要用于四个研究项目，这些项目涉及知识发现领域的研究问题，特别是：基因组和科学数据集的数据挖掘、空间数据挖掘、下一代推荐系统和多代理合同中的投标评估。 对于其中几个项目来说，现有的设备要么不足以支持其核心需求，要么已经过时。 对于其他项目，该设备的可用性将大大提高其能力。 这些项目的共同需求是紧密耦合、高性能、大内存的计算机集群，并连接有高性能、大容量的存储服务器。

EIA-9986042George KarypisUniversity of MinnesotaCISE Research Instrumentation: Cluster Computing for Knowledge Discovery in Diverse Data SetsThe Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota will purchase the following equipment which will be dedicated to support research in computer and information science and engineering. The requested instrumentation consists of 10 dual processor Dell 410 workstations with a total of 10GB of main memory, a CISCO Catalyst 4000 Gigabit switch, and a Hitachi 5750 E RAID system with a total of 360GB storage. This equipment will be used to form a computer cluster suited for data-and compute-intensive applications.The equipment will be primarily used by four research projects which address research problems in the area of knowledge discovery, including in particular: data mining of genomic and scientific data sets, spatial data mining, next-generation recommender systems, and bid evaluation in multi-agent contracting. For several of these projects, the currently available equipment are either inadequate or obsolete for supporting their core needs. For other projects, the availability of this equipment will make a significant increment to their capabilities. The collective needs of these projects are for a tightly-coupled, high-performance, large-memory cluster of computers with a high-performance high-capacity storage server attached to it.