Database Acceleration on FPGAs

Though field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been used to accelerate database systems, they have not been widely adopted for the following reasons. As databases have transitioned to higher bandwidth technology such as in-memory and NVMe, the communication overhead associated with accelerators has become more of a burden. Also, FPGAs are...

Database-driven online safe flight envelope prediction and protection for enhanced aircraft fault tolerance

Among all the contributors to fatal accidents, in-flight loss of control (LOC-I) remains one of the largest categories, as indicated by statistics of investigations into past civil aircraft accidents. In flight LOC generally refers to accidents in which the flight crew was unable to maintain control of the aircraft in flight, resulting in an...

Querying Sparse Matrices for Information Retrieval

For many years, information retrieval (IR) systems could have been adequately described as applications that assign an estimate of relevancy to a pair of document and query, each represented as a 'bag-of-words'. The implementation of such search systems has been relatively straightforward, and most engineers code retrieval models directly on top...

3D topography: A simplicial complex-based solution in a spatial DBMS

Current topographic products are usually limited to a real world representation in only two dimensions, extended with some additional point heights and contour lines. Many environmental issues require more precision than analysis on 2D models can offer. At the same time, vast amounts of 3D data are becoming available due to emerging new data...

Smoothie: A model for linearity optimization of FET devices in RF applications

A cognitive framework for an urban environment design tool

Decision support for the management of shared water resources - Data management as a cornerstone for joint DSS development