The objective of this one-day workshop is to investigate opportunities in accelerating data management systems and workloads (which include traditional OLTP, data warehousing/OLAP, ETL, Streaming/Real-time, Business Analytics, and XML/RDF Processing) using processors (e.g., commodity and specialized Multi-core, GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs), storage systems (e.g., Storage-class Memories like SSDs and Phase-change Memory), and programming models like MapReduce, Spark, CUDA, OpenCL, and OpenACC.
The current data management scenario is characterized by the following trends: traditional OLTP and OLAP/data warehousing systems are being used for increasing complex workloads (e.g., Petabyte of data, complex queries under real-time constraints, etc.); applications are becoming far more distributed, often consisting of different data processing components; non-traditional domains such as bio-informatics, social networking, mobile computing, sensor applications, gaming are generating growing quantities of data of different types; economical and energy constraints are leading to greater consolidation and virtualization of resources; and analyzing vast quantities of complex data is becoming more important than traditional transactional processing.
The suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
Hardware and System Issues in Domain-specific Accelerators
New Programming Methodologies for Data Management Problems on Modern Hardware
Query Processing for Hybrid Architectures
Large-scale I/O-intensive (Big Data) Applications
Parallelizing/Accelerating Analytical (e.g., Data Mining) Workloads
Autonomic Tuning for Data Management Workloads on Hybrid Architectures
Algorithms for Accelerating Multi-modal Multi-tiered Systems
Energy Efficient Software-Hardware Co-design for Data Management Workloads
Parallelizing non-traditional (e.g., graph mining) workloads
Algorithms and Performance Models for modern Storage Sub-systems
Exploitation of specialized ASICs
Novel Applications of Low-Power Processors and FPGAs
Exploitation of Transactional Memory for Database Workloads
Exploitation of Active Technologies (e.g., Active Memory, Active Storage, and Networking)
New Benchmarking Methodologies for Storage-class Memories
Applications of HPC Techniques for Data Management Workloads
Acceleration in the Cloud Environments
Sep 01
2017
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