Systems Used:

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Applications
Roger Chamberlain

• Systems Used
• SGI Altix/RASC MOATB, and
• Xilinx FPGA on PCI-X bus in Altix
• Tools Used
• Mentors Modelsim
• Synplicitys synthesis
• Xilinxs place-and-route

• Text search (both exact and approximate search)
• Encryption/decryption
• Structured record search
• Biosequence search
• Science data mining
• Signature hashing

Implementation Results
Take Home Messages

• Text search at gt 800 MB/s
• Encrypt (3DES)

• RASC incompatible with our existing applications
• Initial focus of SGI was signal processing apps.
• SGI currently altering RASC to address our issues
• HW/SW interface is critical
• Port from Xeon to Opteron to Itanium was
  straightforward

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