Semantic Supercomputing
Current technologies to extract concepts from unstructured documents are extremely computational intensive. To allow interactive experimentation with rich and huge text corpora, the IRF has built a high performance computing environment, into which the latest technological advances have been implemented:
- multi-node clusters (currently 80 cores, up to 1024)
- highest speed interconnect technology
- single system image with large compound memory (currently 320 GB, up to 4 TB)
- fully integrated configurable computing (currently 4 FPGA cores, up to 256)
The combination of these HPC features to accelerate text mining represents the IRF implementation of semantic supercomputing.
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