Exploring the Limits of Query Pushdown for SQL Acceleration on FPGAs

There has been an increasing interest in moving computation closer to storage in recent years due to significant improvements in memory technology. FPGAs were proven to be an exciting candidate for accelerating database workloads since they provide an energy-efficient, reconfigurable and high-performance computation platform. Therefore, FPGAs...

Dataflow Hardware Design for Big Data Acceleration Using Typed Interfaces

Recent trends in large-scale computing demonstrate continuous growth in the need for raw processing performance. At the same time, the slowdown of vertical scaling pushes the industry towards more energy-efficient heterogeneous architectures. With the appearance of FPGAs in the cloud and data centers, a new architecture is offered for offloading...

Transparently Accelerating Spark SQL Code on Computing Hardware

Through new digital business models, the importance of big data analytics continuously grows. Initially, data analytics clusters were mainly bounded by the throughput of network links and the performance of I/O operations. With current hardware development, this has changed, and often the performance of CPUs and memory access became the new...

Scaling up data analytics in Python using multiple FPGAs

Big data applications are becoming more commonplace due to an abundance of digital data and increasingly powerful hardware. One of these classes of hardware devices are FPGAs, which are being used today in various ways such as data centers and embedded systems. High performance, power efficiency, and reprogrammability are the primary reasons...

Enabling FPGA Memory Management for Big Data Applications Using Fletcher

vailability of FPGAs is increasing due to cloud service offerings. In the wake of a new in-memory storage format specification, Apache Arrow, FPGAs are increasingly interesting for data processing acceleration in the big data domain. The Fletcher framework can be used to easily develop FPGA accelerated applications that access data stored in...