Cluster-Based Repositories and Analysis

We propose a feasibility study to develop and inexpensive and scalable cluster and software architecture (comprising commodity components) to support data warehousing and mining applications. This study will include design, prototyping, and evaluationcomponents with the overall goal of being commodity-driven (and henceforth cost effective) and emphasize ease-of-use and deployment to support DoD and advanced commerical applications. The technical features of the cluster will include scalability of bothprocessing and I/O performance to enable large-scale data warehousing and mining software infrastructure, which is required for doing data analysis in terrorism-related applications. We provide details in the Commercialization Strategy of the narrative.Here is a summary:1. High integration potential with existing products (e.g. SAS, SPSS, etc.) where there is a clear need for a