Abstract
The increasing amount of data to be processed by database systems asks for a continuous increase in processing power. While traditional system designs can hardly cope with these performance requirements, dedicated hardware accelerators provide the required processing power. However, dedicated hardware accelerators are inflexible and cannot be adapted to the requirements of a dedicated query. In this paper, a concept is introduced to improve the performance of a Semantic Web database by developing a flexible FPGA-based hardware accelerator. The feasibility of this approach is shown by implementing different types of join operators as one of the most important and most time consuming operators in query execution. The performance comparison between the proposed FPGA implementation and a software solution in C on a general-purpose processor shows a significant speed-up up to 10 times.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2013 International Conference on High Performance Computing Simulation (HPCS) |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Publication date | 01.07.2013 |
| Pages | 131-138 |
| Article number | 6641403 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-147990836-3 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4799-0838-7 |
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| Publication status | Published - 01.07.2013 |
| Event | 2013 11th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation - Helsinki, Finland Duration: 01.07.2013 → 05.07.2013 Conference number: 100986 |
Research Areas and Centers
- Research Area: Intelligent Systems
- Centers: Center for Artificial Intelligence Luebeck (ZKIL)
DFG Research Classification Scheme
- 4.43-03 Security and Dependability, Operating, Communication and Distributed Systems
