High Performance Distributed Systems for Data Mining

The set of algorithms and techniques used to extract interesting patterns and trends from huge data repos-itories is called Data Mining. Due to the typical com-plexity of computations and the amount of data han-dled, the performance control of Data Mining algo-rithms is still an open problem. Despite the many important results that have been obtained so far for specific cases, a more general framework is needed for the development of Data Mining applications, where performances can be controlled effectively. We propose a research activity aimed at the design of a hardware/software architecture for Data Mining. Such architecture will be based on the generalization of the results found during the design of High Perfor-mance Data Mining Algorithms and will be aware of the current trends in High Performance Large Scal