The paper begins with an introduction in automaton theory in section 2. Heres a description of the automata processor, a phrase i hadnt heard before 1. Microns automata processor is an e cient and scalable semiconductor architecture for parallel automata processing 7. Techniques for efficient regular expression matching. In typical micron investor relations style, the company announced the very important automata processor at an evening presentation at supercomputing 20. Micron preps memorybased automata processor electronics360. Micron has announced its automata processor ap, a dram based accelerator of. Learn how a professional gaming streamer can, with the help of highquality technology from micron, build a career, create a community, and do a lot of good in the world. Micron technology is not the first company that comes to mind when you think cpus. Automata 2014 automata 2014 the image could not be loaded. At the moment, this only implements the pciebus host as well as the dram memory controllers for interfacing with the ap ranks.
Automata processor ap is a novel accelerator from micron technology, whichis based on the nonvon neumann architecture and processing in memory concept. Finding motifs in biological sequences using the micron automata processor conference paper in ieeeacm transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics 1. On the other side, however, these experiences over the years at intel he made the move from intel fellow to micron in 2014 have informed the way he looks at practical market adoption of new approaches to processingand how a potential user base might adopt and embrace something new. Entity resolution acceleration using microns automata processor. Five big technology trends september 26, 2014 networking mobile cloud big data. Oct 07, 2014 micron announces sdk for automata processor october 7, 2014 boise, idaho, oct. Therefore, we propose a hardware acceleration solution to er using the ap. Automata processing technology at micron, to find out more about what automata means for. The film is cowritten by ibanez with igor legarreta and javier sanchez donate, and costars birgitte hjort sorensen, melanie griffith, dylan mcdermott, robert forster, and tim mcinnerny. How microns automata promises to improve parallel processing. Micron calls the architecture automata, and the automata processor ap is an accelerator intended to address such areas as image and video analytics, network security and bioinformatics. An overview of microns automata processor 1ke wang, 1kevin angstadt, 1chunkun bo, 1nathan brunelle, 1elaheh sadredini, 2tommy tracy ii,1jack wadden, 2mircea stan, 1kevin skadron. New response micron technology lets rethink the problem the modern.
We explore the micron automata processor ap as a suitable commodity. Problems from a wide variety of application domains can be modeled as nondeterministic finite automaton nfa and hence, efficient execution of nfas can improve the performance of several key applications. Advantages and challenges of programming the micron automata processor by christopher r. Association rule mining with the micron automata processor.
If we had to take a pick from some of the most compelling announcements from sc, the news from memory vendor although that narrow distinction may soon change micron about its new automata processor is at the top of the list. It is a hardware implementation of nondeterministic nite automata nfa and is capable of matching a large number of complex patterns in parallel. Independent research predicts microns automata processor significantly outperforms a multi. Nov 30, 2014 in this video from sc14, paul dlugosch from micron describes the new automata processor for big data. Srinivas aluru, major professor chris chu akhilesh tyagi iowa state. Still, you should not think of the micron automata processor ap announced at supercomputing last november as a cpu, either, because its not. Near memory similarity search on automata processors. Micron showcases automata processor for big data youtube. Micron automata processor a brief introduction hacker news. Nondeterministic finite automata nfa is a powerful compu. Micron technology introduced its automata programmable processor in late 20 and said that it would be used for a variety of applications that require a. The micron team supports communities by spreading goodness to dozens of organizations with volunteerism throughout every year.
Aug 11, 2015 in typical micron investor relations style, the company announced the very important automata processor at an evening presentation at supercomputing 20. Besides anml, micron provides a graphical user interface tool called the ap workbench for quick automaton designing and debugging. This dissertation is the first indepth study on the use of the micron automata. Oct 07, 2014 micron s automata processor continues to drive industry adoption with launch of software development kit. Micron exposes the double life of memory with automata processor. Micron is quietly spinning off its automata processor technology. Independent research predicts the micron automata processor significantly outperforms a multicore hpc cluster in speed, power and estimated cost march, 2014 2014 micron technology, inc. Automata is a 2014 spanishbulgarian englishlanguage science fiction action film directed by gabe ibanez and starring antonio banderas. All you need to know about automata, microns revolutionary. The micron automata processor is an approach in this direction trying to implement a regex engine or rather a nfa engine. By providing a fundamentally new and powerful technology, plus the tools to operate and. Automata is the fruit of intels larrabee artificial intelligence and graphics research. Perhaps its not even the third or fourth to come to mind, because micron is a memory company. You should reach out to the ipdps 2014 program committee and see this reference gets added.
Microns automata processor continues to drive industry. Similarity search on automata processors vincent t. Microns new automata processor ap architecture exploits the very high and natural level of parallelism found in dram technologies to achieve nativehardware implementation of nondeterministic. Microns automata processor ap 12 has been shown to accel erate several. Automata is yet another film that would be considered a sciencefiction film revolving around a dystopian future. Anml is the basic way to program automata on the ap chip. Nov 17, 20 micron s automata processor ap is a programmable silicon device, capable of performing highspeed, comprehensive search and analysis of complex, unstructured data streams. Pdf an overview of microns automata processor researchgate. In this video from sc14, paul dlugosch from micron describes the new automata processor for big data.
All you need to know about automata, microns revolutionary processor. Automata threads works independently so the programmer does not have to focus on exploiting parallelism in gpus and cpus. From an algorithmic standpoint, regular expression matching engines are based on finite automata, either in their nondeterministic or in their deterministic form nfa and dfa, respectively. Keywords automata processor, cellular automaton, turing complete. An overview of microns automata processor computer science. Micron s new automata processor ap architecture exploits the very high and natural level of parallelism found in dram technologies to achieve nativehardware implementation of nondeterministic. Sequential pattern mining spm is a widely used data mining technique for discovering common sequences of events in large databases. An overview of microns automata processor 2016 pdf.
Using the automata processor for fast pattern recognition in high. Sequential pattern mining with the micron automata processor. Automata overview 1 a quick introduction to the micron automata chip peter m. Pdf microns new automata processor ap architecture exploits the very high and natural. Automata designs for data encryption with a es using the. In section 3, the basic elements of the automata processor are described. Cellular automata on the micron automata processor computer. Advantages and challenges of programming the micron automata. This future is filled with robots who were created to serve man and in doing so. All you need to know about automata, micron s revolutionary processor.
Parallel automata processor university of michigan. An overview of microns 1ke wang, 1kevin angstadt, 1chunkun bo, 1nathan brunelle,1elaheh sadredini,2tommy tracy ii,1jack wadden, 2mircea stan, 1kevin skadron center for automata computing 1department of computer science 2department of electrical and computer engineering university of virginia. Finding motifs in biological sequences using the micron. This paper gives an introduction in the automata processor. The core feature of the ap, the state transition element ste, was designed for highly parallel recognition of complex patterns in big data. Automata network markup language anml is an xml language for describing the composition of automata networks. Marziyeh nourian1,3, xiang wang1, xiaodong yu2, wuchun feng2, michela becchi1,3 1,3department of electrical and computer engineering, 2department of computer science. Dec 01, 2014 in this video from sc14, paul dlugosch from micron describes the new automata processor for big data by providing a fundamentally new and powerful technology, plus the tools to operate and program it, micron is providing developers and customers an entirely new way to power their innovation, said paul dlugosch, director of automata processor development for microns compute and. The climate change and a series of solar storms have turned in a desert the surface of the planet and annihilated to the 99. Mar 28, 2014 all you need to know about automata, microns revolutionary processor. Microns new automata processor ap architecture exploits the very high and natural level of parallelism found in dram technologies to achieve nativehardware implementation of nondeterministic finite automata nfas. Automata processor tobias markus introduction automaton theory implementation programming the ap applications conclusion automata processor memory array automata dimm format1 is implemented in microns standard ddr3 sdram technology processes 8 bit input symbols at 1 gbps input symbol is given as row address. Register or sign in below to download the full article in. When compared with the simple set mining problem and string mining problem, the hierarchical structure of sequential pattern mining due to the need to consider frequent subsets within each itemset, as well as order among itemsets and the resulting large.