High-performance regular expression scanning on the cell/B.E. processor

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 14-25

  Scarpazza, Daniele Paolo ^a   Russell, Gregory F ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell processor; Multi core; Regular expressions

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS; CELL CHIPS; CELL PROCESSOR; CLOCK CYCLES; DATA VOLUME; DEDICATED HARDWARE; EXECUTION TIME; GENERAL TRENDS; MULTI CORE; MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES; MULTIPLE THREADS; PROCESSING POWER; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SIMD INSTRUCTIONS; TOKENIZATION; WIKIPEDIA;

HARDWARE; INDEXING (MATERIALS WORKING); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MARKUP LANGUAGES; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 70449709567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1542275.1542284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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