Mining Large Data Sets on Grids: Issues and Prospects

Authors

  • David Skillicorn
  • Domenico Talia

Keywords:

Grid computing, data mining, distributed knowlege discovery, datacentric models, high-performance computing, data-intensive systems

Abstract

When data mining and knowledge discovery techniques must be used to analyze large amounts of data, high-performance parallel and distributed computers can help to provide better computational performance and, as a consequence, deeper and more meaningful results. Recently grids, composed of large-scale, geographically distributed platforms working together, have emerged as effective architectures for high-performance decentralized computation. It is natural to consider grids as tools for distributed data-intensive applications such as data mining, but the underlying patterns of computation and data movement in such applications are different from those of more conventional high-performance computation. These differences require a different kind of grid, or at least a grid with significantly different emphases. This paper discusses the main issues, requirements, and design approaches for the implementation of grid-based knowledge discovery systems. Furthermore, some prospects and promising research directions in datacentric and knowledge-discovery oriented grids are outlined.

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Published

2012-02-21

How to Cite

Skillicorn, D., & Talia, D. (2012). Mining Large Data Sets on Grids: Issues and Prospects. COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS, 21(4), 347–362. Retrieved from https://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/488