Meeting the challenges of data analysis on the wire

Abstract

The project of Analysis on the Wire (AoW) at Brookhaven National Laboratory has the goal of executing generic computations in the network fabric, "on the wire," to sup-port early decision making. We are research-ing, developing, and evaluating hardware and software mechanisms and middleware to be used for data analysis on the wire. We further pursue to address several complex challenges encountered in such a computing environ-ment, such as handling raw packet data, deal-ing with computations of a streaming nature, and eliminating performance-killing bottle-necks and delays by taking advantage of any means of acceleration.