The Pervasive DataRush Academic Alliance Program
Qualified universities and not-for-profit research groups have the opportunity to explore joint development opportunities with Pervasive Software by utilizing a FREE Pervasive DataRush (PDR) academic license.
Purpose of the Academic Alliance Program
This program provides a structured framework for advancing Parallel Data Mining in science and technology. Building on the success of an existing collaboration program with the University of Texas at Austin, this program now provides many long-term benefits to academia and not-for-profit research initiatives.
- Access to next-generation technology. FREE academic license to the Pervasive DataRush extensive and customizable Java library of massively parallel programming components. The PDR java framework abstracts parallel programming difficult issues with threads, deadlock detection, starvation, or concurrent memory access.
- Consume large-scale datasets. PDR uses a computational model called dataflow. The basic concept of dataflow is to use pipelining to reduce the memory footprint required to consume large-scale datasets. Besides offering this potential for scaling to problems larger than what the heap would otherwise permit, dataflow graphs exploit multiple forms of parallelism.
- Exposure to real-life projects and datasets. Students strive to learn real-world applications and technologies with an end goal of being better prepared for the professional world.
- Opportunity to work with industry pioneers. Students will have the unsurpassed exposure and the ability to learn and solve problems side-by-side with industry professionals.
- Technical papers and current publications. Resulting from the Fall 2008 UT collaboration, the paper, titled "Pervasive Parallelism in Data Mining: Dataflow solution to Co-clustering Large and Sparse Netflix Data", has been selected for presentation in July 2009 at the 15th Annual SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Paris, France.
- Apply for the PDR Internship Program
Requirements for Academic Alliance Program
Proven group collaboration in multi-disciplinary projects and a strong sense of focus. Projects available include Parallel Data Mining, Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Visualization. Upon completion, students will receive a PDRAAP Certificate of Completion.
Pervasive Software is eager to expand participation with leading scientific and technical researchers, including collaboration with qualifying institutions to help establish formal classroom instruction around using PDR's parallel programming, Java library, and dataflow engine to scale beyond heap resources and to leverage pipeline, horizontal and vertical parallelism.
Pervasive Software is motivated by the ability to directly affect and influence the education and promotion of data-intensive high performance computing while creating next-generation technologies ... and the best leaders of tomorrow!
Benefits
- Access to next-generation technology
- Consume large-scale datasets
- Exposure to real-life projects and datasets
- Chance to work with industry pioneers
- Technical papers
- Opportunity to apply for PDR Internship Program
- Certificate upon completion
Requirements
- Proven group collaboration in multi-disciplinary projects
- Strong sense of focus
- Projects available: Parallel Data Mining, Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Visualization
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