Brain Bank Data Mining on Global Integral Utility SuperComputing Grid

EnRico Melson, AHA! Ventures, Inc., USA

   The Internet and World Wide Web were major Milestones in the development of Collaboration for Research and Data Exchange.  While the Academic and Scientific communities have benefited greatly from this Creation – the entire world has come to realize countless gains in innumerable areas of Human activity.  We are now faced with the need to even further evolve the “Next-Generation Web”, the “Web 2.0”, the “TeraGrid”, the “Global Grid”, or the “INTEGRID”– as it may be called.  There are now far greater demands of bandwidth, multimedia, data volumes, security, interactivity, and real-time collaboration facing the high-end user communities around the World – particularly Science and Academia.  There is also the need to evolve this Super-Grid (INTEGRID^TM) with increasing Virtualization of pervasive data storage, SuperComputing processing power, Applications, and wireless ultra-broadband communications capability.  Service-Oriented Information Technology (SO-IT) will lead the way in the Global INTEGRID environment – solving many of the legacy systems limitations of expensive, less-compatible, less-secure, cumbersome, and slow silo-architecture-based environments.  [We are coming much closer to realizing the Vision of Sun MicroSystems Founder, Scott McNealy: “The Internet is the Computer.”]

    In this paper, the Author introduces the role the INTEGRID will play in the global Brain Bank Project.  As an Integral Utility SuperComputing Grid, the INTEGRID can serve as the repository for data storage and collaboration amongst the international teams of researchers on the Brain Bank Project. Data Mining on a massive scale can be achieved – rapid, efficient, real-time, cost-effective, and secure – via the IUGS^TM environment.  Additionally, as a Utility SuperComputing Grid, massive PetaFlop/sec processing, along with PetaByte+ storage capacities are available on-demand for users, who only pay for actual use. Thus, tremendous resources are freed up from traditional local IT infrastructure procurement and maintenance, making more funds available for the actual research work. This will revolutionize scientific collaboration, investigational and analytic methodology, and technology R&D.

Keywords:  Brain Bank; Data Mining; Grid; Utility; SuperComputing; Collaboration, INTEGRID; USA