The Welsh e-Science Centre (WeSC)'s Cortex 2 Grid-enabled Pattern Matching Engine supports the research and development needs of e-Scientists / e-Researchers within a Grid-centric ICT infrastructure. This R&D scale facility, the first of its kind anywhere in the World, is intended for research into techniques for managing and pattern-matching large datasets in a Grid centric world.

Cortex 2 is a pattern matching system based around 2 SUN FIRE V880 servers incorporating AURA hardware-accelerated pattern matching technology from Cybula Ltd. Hardware accelerated pattern matching for multiple data types is based on the use of a Correlation Matrix Memory (CMM) and carefully selected neural network techniques that permit searches to be undertaken on complex graphs, unstructured texts and signals.

This facility is closely associated with the WeSC Grid-Enabled Data Store.

Anyone wishing to use the Pattern Matching Enginee should contact manager@wesc.ac.uk in the first instance.