An architecture for a data-intensive computer
Edward Givelberg, Alexander S. Szalay, Kalin Kanov, Randal C. Burns · 2011
Scientific instruments, as well as simulations, generate increasingly large datasets, changing the way we do science. We propose a system that we call the data-intensive computer for computing with Petascale-sized datasets. The data-intensive computer consists of an HPC cluster, a massively parallel database and a set of computing servers running the data-intensive operating system, which turns the database into a layer in the memory hierarchy of the data-intensive computer.