Pervasive DataRush on SGI® Altix® UV 1000 Shatters Smith-Waterman Throughput Record by 43 Percent
September 27 2010 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Pervasive Software® Inc.(NASDAQ: PVSW) today announced along
with SGI that Pervasive’s implementation of the Smith-Waterman
algorithm for performing local protein sequence alignment analyzed
10 million combinations of protein sequences in 81.1 seconds. The
algorithm leveraged the Pervasive DataRush™ platform to scale
across an SGI Altix UV 1000 with 384 cores to achieve a sustained
throughput of 986 billion cell updates/second. Dramatically
demonstrating Pervasive DataRush scalability, the same executable
used on a four-core system dynamically scaled across all 384 cores
on the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series based server.1
The results provide TCUPS-scale performance, an order of
magnitude greater throughput than earlier Smith-Waterman algorithm
performance records. The high-performance algorithm is implemented
here using the Pervasive DataRush parallel dataflow platform, which
developers can rapidly exploit using its extensible library of
operators that seamlessly scale on commercially available multicore
hardware.
“Pervasive DataRush applications deliver robust future-proofing
as customers can seamlessly scale to take advantage of ever more
powerful hardware platforms, and the Smith-Waterman results provide
a riveting demonstration of just how seamless and scalable that
future-proofing really is,” said Ray Newmark, Pervasive DataRush
vice president of sales and marketing. “This demonstrates that
developers in all types of organizations can leverage this platform
to design and deploy highly scalable applications with no need for
specialized parallelization knowledge.”
“With Pervasive DataRush on Altix UV, commercial and academic
researchers have unparalleled access to world-class performance for
design-time and runtime productivity,” said Bill Mannel, vice
president of product marketing at SGI. “We are impressed by how
rapidly the Pervasive DataRush platform scaled to tap into the
power of Altix UV. Together, they put previously unimaginable power
in the hands of bioinformatics, genomic research and other
simulation, data mining and mathematical modeling scientists.”
The Pervasive DataRush-based Smith Waterman algorithm is
available for partners and customers to implement in their
environments.
About Pervasive Software
Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW) helps companies get the most
out of their data investments through agile and embeddable software
and cloud-based services for data management, data integration, B2B
exchange and analytics. The embeddable Pervasive PSQL™ database
engine provides robust database reliability in a near-zero database
administration environment for packaged business applications.
Pervasive's multi-purpose data integration platform, available
on-premises and in the cloud, accelerates the sharing of
information between multiple data stores, applications, and hosted
business systems and allows customers to re-use the same software
for diverse integration scenarios. Pervasive DataRush™ is an
embeddable parallel dataflow platform enabling data-intensive
applications such as claims processing, risk analysis, fraud
detection, data mining, predictive analytics, sales optimization
and marketing analytics. For more than two decades, Pervasive
products have delivered value to tens of thousands of customers in
more than 150 countries with a compelling combination of
performance, flexibility, reliability and low total cost of
ownership. Through Pervasive Innovation Labs, the company also
invests in exploring and creating cutting edge solutions for the
toughest data analysis and data delivery challenges. Robin Bloor,
Chief Research Analyst and President, The Bloor Group and Founder,
Bloor Research, recently cited Pervasive as one of the “10 IT
Companies to Watch in 2010.” For additional information, go to
www.pervasive.com.
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available to Pervasive as of the date hereof, and Pervasive assumes
no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement.
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1 Tests were performed by Pervasive DataRush developers on July
7, 2010 using Pervasive’s Smith-Waterman implementation on
Pervasive DataRush 4.4 running on a SGI Altix UV 1000 at SGI’s
Fremont laboratories.
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