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SGI, iQUEST demonstrate solution at GEOINT Symposium
SGI delivers unprecedented speed for breakthrough application discovering previously unrecognized relationships in data: By developing a solution that rapidly identifies relationships between previously unconnected data, SGI and iQUEST Analytics, Inc. have made it possible for the intelligence community to flag in near real time anomalous behavior that bears scrutiny as a possible danger to national security. On October 21 through October 24, iQUEST and SGI will demonstrate the joint solution at the GEOINT Symposium in San Antonio, Texas, which showcases technologies designed to enhance national defense and intelligence. 
The joint technology demonstration features a solution that analyzes unstructured information from such sources as articles, Web pages, e-mails, telephone call logs, transcripts, online forums, blogs, survey responses and RSS feeds to determine who talks to whom, what they talk about, when they talk and where they talk. Operating within the parameters entered, the solution identifies potentially important relationships among the data by identifying the nodes that have the most activity, analyzing how many times a word appears in a document or how many times it appears in proximity to another word. In this way, the technology not only can reduce manual analysis time, it presents users with previously unknown relationships and helps them to make quick decisions based on critical information. "We specialize in discovering previously unknown data relationships. This solution not only connects the dots, it goes out and finds the dots," said Dr. Josh Rosenthal, president of iQUEST. "Running our software on SGI servers, we are able to process significant amounts of unstructured data and map it as close to real time as possible." The solution leverages the SGI Altix 450's global shared memory to allow access to all data in the system's memory directly and efficiently, without having to move data through I/O and minimizing network bottlenecks. In fact, entire databases can be driven directly out of memory, making it possible for users to get results faster. "Terabytes of data may go undiscovered because no one has the wherewithal to analyze it rapidly," said Joseph Mansour, district manager, Strategic Accounts and Program Capture, SGI. "iQUEST software, running on an SGI Altix 450, not only brings that data to light, it does the job with exceptional performance. The SGI Altix delivers the speed, processing power, memory and computational power needed for the iQUEST software to discover relationships in disparate data that may be relevant to the investigator, the analyst and the operator." The solution, which will be demonstrated in the iQUEST booth, will run on an SGI Altix 450 configured with 128 Gigabytes of memory and up to two Terabytes of storage operating at a memory speed that makes it a thousand times faster than disk. The system's SGI InfiniteStorage 120 provides 1.8 Terabytes of RAW space with six 300 Gigabyte drives. The highly scalable architecture of the system is designed to meet the needs of customers' most demanding applications.
The joint technology demonstration features a solution that analyzes unstructured information from such sources as articles, Web pages, e-mails, telephone call logs, transcripts, online forums, blogs, survey responses and RSS feeds to determine who talks to whom, what they talk about, when they talk and where they talk. Operating within the parameters entered, the solution identifies potentially important relationships among the data by identifying the nodes that have the most activity, analyzing how many times a word appears in a document or how many times it appears in proximity to another word. In this way, the technology not only can reduce manual analysis time, it presents users with previously unknown relationships and helps them to make quick decisions based on critical information. "We specialize in discovering previously unknown data relationships. This solution not only connects the dots, it goes out and finds the dots," said Dr. Josh Rosenthal, president of iQUEST. "Running our software on SGI servers, we are able to process significant amounts of unstructured data and map it as close to real time as possible." The solution leverages the SGI Altix 450's global shared memory to allow access to all data in the system's memory directly and efficiently, without having to move data through I/O and minimizing network bottlenecks. In fact, entire databases can be driven directly out of memory, making it possible for users to get results faster. "Terabytes of data may go undiscovered because no one has the wherewithal to analyze it rapidly," said Joseph Mansour, district manager, Strategic Accounts and Program Capture, SGI. "iQUEST software, running on an SGI Altix 450, not only brings that data to light, it does the job with exceptional performance. The SGI Altix delivers the speed, processing power, memory and computational power needed for the iQUEST software to discover relationships in disparate data that may be relevant to the investigator, the analyst and the operator." The solution, which will be demonstrated in the iQUEST booth, will run on an SGI Altix 450 configured with 128 Gigabytes of memory and up to two Terabytes of storage operating at a memory speed that makes it a thousand times faster than disk. The system's SGI InfiniteStorage 120 provides 1.8 Terabytes of RAW space with six 300 Gigabyte drives. The highly scalable architecture of the system is designed to meet the needs of customers' most demanding applications.