"TeraScope: Distributed Visual Data Mining of Terascale Data Sets over Photonic Networks"
TeraScope: Distributed Visual Data Mining of Terascale Data Sets over Photonic Networks
Zhang, C., Leigh, J., DeFanti, T.A., Mazzucco, M., Grossman, R.
TeraScope tiled display at iGrid 2002
Credit: C. Zhang, EVL
TeraScope is a framework and a suite of tools for interactively browsing and visualizing large terascale data sets. Unique to TeraScope is its utilization of the Optiputer paradigm to treat distributed computer clusters as a single giant computer, where the dedicated optical networks that connect the clusters serve as the computer’s system bus. TeraScope explores one aspect of the Optiputer architecture by employing a distributed pool of memory, called LambdaRAM, that serves as a massive data cache for supporting parallel data mining and visualization algorithms.