This paper talks about algorithms to do database joins on a GPU. Some interesting work here, that will someday lead to implementing databases on a GPGPU like CUDA.
MapReduce: A useful parallel tool that still has room for improvementKyong-Ha Lee
The document discusses MapReduce, a framework for processing large datasets in parallel. It provides an overview of MapReduce's basic principles, surveys research to improve the conventional MapReduce framework, and describes research projects ongoing at KAIST. The key points are that MapReduce provides automatic parallelization, fault tolerance, and distributed processing of large datasets across commodity computer clusters. It also introduces the map and reduce functions that define MapReduce jobs.
The document discusses using MapReduce and NoSQL databases like MongoDB and Accumulo to solve challenges of analyzing large datasets by allowing distributed processing and incremental updates compared to traditional analytical systems. It provides examples of using MapReduce on MongoDB and Accumulo to perform analytics and maintain running aggregates or results. The document also discusses tradeoffs between different approaches and best practices for optimizing performance when using MapReduce and NoSQL databases together.
This document provides information about various Linux clusters and distributed resource managers available at the Center for Genome Science and NIH. It lists several Linux cluster machines including KHAN, KGENE, LOGIN, LOGINDB, and DEV. Details are provided about the KHAN cluster, which has a total of 94 nodes, including specifications of the nodes and storage and software information. It also briefly mentions distributed resource managers.
This document provides information about various Linux clusters and distributed resource managers available at the Center for Genome Science and NIH. It lists several Linux cluster machines including KHAN with 94 nodes, KGENE with 28 nodes, and LOGIN and LOGINDB servers. Details are provided about the KHAN cluster including its node configuration, storage space, and available software. It also briefly mentions distributed resource managers.
K-Means clustering is a popular clustering algorithm in data mining. Clustering large data sets can be time consuming, and in an attempt to minimize this time, our project is a parallel implementation of K-Means clustering algorithm on CUDA using C. We present the performance analysis and implementation of our approach to parallelizing K-Means clustering.
1) The PG-Strom project aims to accelerate PostgreSQL queries using GPUs. It generates CUDA code from SQL queries and runs them on Nvidia GPUs for parallel processing.
2) Initial results show PG-Strom can be up to 10 times faster than PostgreSQL for queries involving large table joins and aggregations.
3) Future work includes better supporting columnar formats and integrating with PostgreSQL's native column storage to improve performance further.
Parallel Implementation of K Means Clustering on CUDAprithan
K-Means clustering is a popular clustering algorithm in data mining. Clustering large data sets can be
time consuming, and in an attempt to minimize this time, our project is a parallel implementation of KMeans
clustering algorithm on CUDA using C. We present the performance analysis and implementation
of our approach to parallelizing K-Means clustering.
MapReduce: A useful parallel tool that still has room for improvementKyong-Ha Lee
The document discusses MapReduce, a framework for processing large datasets in parallel. It provides an overview of MapReduce's basic principles, surveys research to improve the conventional MapReduce framework, and describes research projects ongoing at KAIST. The key points are that MapReduce provides automatic parallelization, fault tolerance, and distributed processing of large datasets across commodity computer clusters. It also introduces the map and reduce functions that define MapReduce jobs.
The document discusses using MapReduce and NoSQL databases like MongoDB and Accumulo to solve challenges of analyzing large datasets by allowing distributed processing and incremental updates compared to traditional analytical systems. It provides examples of using MapReduce on MongoDB and Accumulo to perform analytics and maintain running aggregates or results. The document also discusses tradeoffs between different approaches and best practices for optimizing performance when using MapReduce and NoSQL databases together.
This document provides information about various Linux clusters and distributed resource managers available at the Center for Genome Science and NIH. It lists several Linux cluster machines including KHAN, KGENE, LOGIN, LOGINDB, and DEV. Details are provided about the KHAN cluster, which has a total of 94 nodes, including specifications of the nodes and storage and software information. It also briefly mentions distributed resource managers.
This document provides information about various Linux clusters and distributed resource managers available at the Center for Genome Science and NIH. It lists several Linux cluster machines including KHAN with 94 nodes, KGENE with 28 nodes, and LOGIN and LOGINDB servers. Details are provided about the KHAN cluster including its node configuration, storage space, and available software. It also briefly mentions distributed resource managers.
K-Means clustering is a popular clustering algorithm in data mining. Clustering large data sets can be time consuming, and in an attempt to minimize this time, our project is a parallel implementation of K-Means clustering algorithm on CUDA using C. We present the performance analysis and implementation of our approach to parallelizing K-Means clustering.
1) The PG-Strom project aims to accelerate PostgreSQL queries using GPUs. It generates CUDA code from SQL queries and runs them on Nvidia GPUs for parallel processing.
2) Initial results show PG-Strom can be up to 10 times faster than PostgreSQL for queries involving large table joins and aggregations.
3) Future work includes better supporting columnar formats and integrating with PostgreSQL's native column storage to improve performance further.
Parallel Implementation of K Means Clustering on CUDAprithan
K-Means clustering is a popular clustering algorithm in data mining. Clustering large data sets can be
time consuming, and in an attempt to minimize this time, our project is a parallel implementation of KMeans
clustering algorithm on CUDA using C. We present the performance analysis and implementation
of our approach to parallelizing K-Means clustering.
My talk about Catalyst for QCon Beijing 2015. In this talk, we walk through Catalyst, Spark SQL's query optimizer, by using a simplified version of Catalyst to build an optimizing Brainfuck compiler named Brainsuck in less than 300 lines of code.
The document discusses PG-Strom, an open source project that uses GPU acceleration for PostgreSQL. PG-Strom allows for automatic generation of GPU code from SQL queries, enabling transparent acceleration of operations like WHERE clauses, JOINs, and GROUP BY through thousands of GPU cores. It introduces PL/CUDA, which allows users to write custom CUDA kernels and integrate them with PostgreSQL for manual optimization of complex algorithms. A case study on k-nearest neighbor similarity search for drug discovery is presented to demonstrate PG-Strom's ability to accelerate computational workloads through GPU processing.
20181116 Massive Log Processing using I/O optimized PostgreSQLKohei KaiGai
The document describes a technology called PG-Strom that uses GPU acceleration to optimize I/O performance for PostgreSQL. PG-Strom allows data to be transferred directly from NVMe SSDs to the GPU over the PCIe bus, bypassing the CPU and RAM. This reduces data movement and allows PostgreSQL queries to be partially executed directly on the GPU. Benchmark results show the approach can achieve throughput close to the theoretical hardware limits for a single server configuration processing large datasets.
Database Research on Modern Computing ArchitectureKyong-Ha Lee
This document provides an overview of a talk on database research related to modern computing architecture given on September 10, 2010. The talk discusses the immense changes in computer hardware, including a variety of computing resources and increasing intra-node parallelism. It also covers how database technology can facilitate modern hardware features like parallelism. Specific topics covered include memory hierarchy changes, the memory wall problem, and latency issues compared to increasing bandwidth.
PL/CUDA allows writing user-defined functions in CUDA C that can run on a GPU. This provides benefits for analytics workloads that can utilize thousands of GPU cores and wide memory bandwidth. A sample logistic regression implementation in PL/CUDA showed a 350x speedup compared to a CPU-based implementation in MADLib. Logistic regression performs binary classification by estimating weights for explanatory variables and intercept through iterative updates. This is well-suited to parallelization on a GPU.
This document describes using in-place computing on PostgreSQL to perform statistical analysis directly on data stored in a PostgreSQL database. Key points include:
- An F-test is used to compare the variances of accelerometer data from different phone models (Nexus 4 and S3 Mini) and activities (walking and biking).
- Performing the F-test directly in PostgreSQL via SQL queries is faster than exporting the data to an R script, as it avoids the overhead of data transfer.
- PG-Strom, an extension for PostgreSQL, is used to generate CUDA code on-the-fly to parallelize the variance calculations on a GPU, further speeding up the F-test.
Jvm & Garbage collection tuning for low latencies applicationQuentin Ambard
G1, CMS, Shenandoah, or Zing? Heap size at 8GB or 31GB? compressed pointers? Region size? What is the maximum break time? Throughput or Latency... What gain? MaxGCPauseMillis, G1HeapRegionSize, MaxTenuringThreshold, UnlockExperimentalVMOptions, ParallelGCThreads, InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent, G1RSetUpdatingPauseTimePercent, which parameters have the most impact?
This document describes the MapReduce programming model for processing large datasets in a distributed manner. MapReduce allows users to write map and reduce functions that are automatically parallelized and run across large clusters. The input data is split and the map tasks run in parallel, producing intermediate key-value pairs. These are shuffled and input to the reduce tasks, which produce the final output. The system handles failures, scheduling and parallelization transparently, making it easy for programmers to write distributed applications.
Jvm tuning for low latency application & CassandraQuentin Ambard
G1, CMS, Shenandoah, or Zing? Heap size at 8GB or 31GB? compressed pointers? Region size? What is the maximum break time? Throughput or Latency... What gain? MaxGCPauseMillis, G1HeapRegionSize, MaxTenuringThreshold, UnlockExperimentalVMOptions, ParallelGCThreads, InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent, G1RSetUpdatingPauseTimePercent, which parameters have the most impact?
The document discusses Spark, an open-source cluster computing framework. It describes Spark's Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD) as an immutable and partitioned collection that can automatically recover from node failures. RDDs can be created from data sources like files or existing collections. Transformations create new RDDs from existing ones lazily, while actions return values to the driver program. Spark supports operations like WordCount through transformations like flatMap and reduceByKey. It uses stages and shuffling to distribute operations across a cluster in a fault-tolerant manner. Spark Streaming processes live data streams by dividing them into batches treated as RDDs. Spark SQL allows querying data through SQL on DataFrames.
Optimal Execution Of MapReduce Jobs In Cloud - Voices 2015Deanna Kosaraju
Optimal Execution Of MapReduce Jobs In Cloud
Anshul Aggarwal, Software Engineer, Cisco Systems
Session Length: 1 Hour
Tue March 10 21:30 PST
Wed March 11 0:30 EST
Wed March 11 4:30:00 UTC
Wed March 11 10:00 IST
Wed March 11 15:30 Sydney
Voices 2015 www.globaltechwomen.com
We use MapReduce programming paradigm because it lends itself well to most data-intensive analytics jobs run on cloud these days, given its ability to scale-out and leverage several machines to parallel process data. Research has demonstrates that existing approaches to provisioning other applications in the cloud are not immediately relevant to MapReduce -based applications. Provisioning a MapReduce job entails requesting optimum number of resource sets (RS) and configuring MapReduce parameters such that each resource set is maximally utilized.
Each application has a different bottleneck resource (CPU :Disk :Network), and different bottleneck resource utilization, and thus needs to pick a different combination of these parameters based on the job profile such that the bottleneck resource is maximally utilized.
The problem at hand is thus defining a resource provisioning framework for MapReduce jobs running in a cloud keeping in mind performance goals such as Optimal resource utilization with Minimum incurred cost, Lower execution time, Energy Awareness, Automatic handling of node failure and Highly scalable solution.
Slides of the workshop conducted in Model Engineering College, Ernakulam, and Sree Narayana Gurukulam College, Kadayiruppu
Kerala, India in December 2010
This document discusses NoSQL databases and provides examples of different types. It begins by discussing motivations for NoSQL like performance, scalability, and flexibility over traditional relational databases. It then categorizes NoSQL databases as key-value stores like Redis and Tokyo Cabinet, column-oriented stores like BigTable and Cassandra, document-oriented stores like CouchDB and MongoDB, and graph databases like Neo4J. For each category it provides comparisons on attributes and examples using different languages.
This was the first session about Hadoop and MapReduce. It introduces what Hadoop is and its main components. It also covers the how to program your first MapReduce task and how to run it on pseudo distributed Hadoop installation.
This session was given in Arabic and i may provide a video for the session soon.
Introduction to MapReduce - Hadoop Streaming | Big Data Hadoop Spark Tutorial...CloudxLab
Big Data with Hadoop & Spark Training: http://bit.ly/2sh5b3E
This CloudxLab Hadoop Streaming tutorial helps you to understand Hadoop Streaming in detail. Below are the topics covered in this tutorial:
1) Hadoop Streaming and Why Do We Need it?
2) Writing Streaming Jobs
3) Testing Streaming jobs and Hands-on on CloudxLab
The document describes benchmark results achieved by using NVMe SSDs and GPU acceleration to improve the performance of PostgreSQL beyond typical limitations. A benchmark was run using 13 queries on a 1055GB dataset with PostgreSQL v11beta3 + PG-Strom v2.1. This achieved a maximum query execution throughput of 13.5GB/s. PG-Strom is an extension module that uses thousands of GPU cores and wide-band memory to accelerate SQL workloads. It generates GPU code from SQL and executes queries directly on the GPU, bypassing data transfers between CPU and GPU to improve performance.
The document discusses dense linear algebra solvers and algorithms. It provides an overview of existing software for dense linear algebra including LINPACK, EISPACK, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, PLASMA, and MAGMA. It then discusses challenges with dense linear algebra on modern hardware including distributed memory, heterogeneity, and the high cost of communication. It introduces tile algorithms as an approach to address these challenges compared to traditional LAPACK algorithms.
[Harvard CS264] 11b - Analysis-Driven Performance Optimization with CUDA (Cli...npinto
This document discusses performance optimization of GPU kernels. It outlines analyzing kernels to determine if they are limited by memory bandwidth, instruction throughput, or latency. The profiler can identify limiting factors by comparing memory transactions and instructions issued. Source code modifications for memory-only and math-only versions help analyze memory vs computation balance and latency hiding. The goal is to optimize kernels by addressing their most significant performance limiters.
Hash join is a type of join operation that uses a hash table to perform the join. There are three types of hash joins - optimal, onepass, and multipass. Optimal hash join performs the join entirely in memory, while onepass and multipass hash joins spill data to temporary storage due to insufficient memory. The size of the build table can impact the performance and memory requirements of the hash join, with smaller build tables generally requiring less memory but potentially more disk reads. The best build table depends on the relative sizes of the tables and available memory.
My talk about Catalyst for QCon Beijing 2015. In this talk, we walk through Catalyst, Spark SQL's query optimizer, by using a simplified version of Catalyst to build an optimizing Brainfuck compiler named Brainsuck in less than 300 lines of code.
The document discusses PG-Strom, an open source project that uses GPU acceleration for PostgreSQL. PG-Strom allows for automatic generation of GPU code from SQL queries, enabling transparent acceleration of operations like WHERE clauses, JOINs, and GROUP BY through thousands of GPU cores. It introduces PL/CUDA, which allows users to write custom CUDA kernels and integrate them with PostgreSQL for manual optimization of complex algorithms. A case study on k-nearest neighbor similarity search for drug discovery is presented to demonstrate PG-Strom's ability to accelerate computational workloads through GPU processing.
20181116 Massive Log Processing using I/O optimized PostgreSQLKohei KaiGai
The document describes a technology called PG-Strom that uses GPU acceleration to optimize I/O performance for PostgreSQL. PG-Strom allows data to be transferred directly from NVMe SSDs to the GPU over the PCIe bus, bypassing the CPU and RAM. This reduces data movement and allows PostgreSQL queries to be partially executed directly on the GPU. Benchmark results show the approach can achieve throughput close to the theoretical hardware limits for a single server configuration processing large datasets.
Database Research on Modern Computing ArchitectureKyong-Ha Lee
This document provides an overview of a talk on database research related to modern computing architecture given on September 10, 2010. The talk discusses the immense changes in computer hardware, including a variety of computing resources and increasing intra-node parallelism. It also covers how database technology can facilitate modern hardware features like parallelism. Specific topics covered include memory hierarchy changes, the memory wall problem, and latency issues compared to increasing bandwidth.
PL/CUDA allows writing user-defined functions in CUDA C that can run on a GPU. This provides benefits for analytics workloads that can utilize thousands of GPU cores and wide memory bandwidth. A sample logistic regression implementation in PL/CUDA showed a 350x speedup compared to a CPU-based implementation in MADLib. Logistic regression performs binary classification by estimating weights for explanatory variables and intercept through iterative updates. This is well-suited to parallelization on a GPU.
This document describes using in-place computing on PostgreSQL to perform statistical analysis directly on data stored in a PostgreSQL database. Key points include:
- An F-test is used to compare the variances of accelerometer data from different phone models (Nexus 4 and S3 Mini) and activities (walking and biking).
- Performing the F-test directly in PostgreSQL via SQL queries is faster than exporting the data to an R script, as it avoids the overhead of data transfer.
- PG-Strom, an extension for PostgreSQL, is used to generate CUDA code on-the-fly to parallelize the variance calculations on a GPU, further speeding up the F-test.
Jvm & Garbage collection tuning for low latencies applicationQuentin Ambard
G1, CMS, Shenandoah, or Zing? Heap size at 8GB or 31GB? compressed pointers? Region size? What is the maximum break time? Throughput or Latency... What gain? MaxGCPauseMillis, G1HeapRegionSize, MaxTenuringThreshold, UnlockExperimentalVMOptions, ParallelGCThreads, InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent, G1RSetUpdatingPauseTimePercent, which parameters have the most impact?
This document describes the MapReduce programming model for processing large datasets in a distributed manner. MapReduce allows users to write map and reduce functions that are automatically parallelized and run across large clusters. The input data is split and the map tasks run in parallel, producing intermediate key-value pairs. These are shuffled and input to the reduce tasks, which produce the final output. The system handles failures, scheduling and parallelization transparently, making it easy for programmers to write distributed applications.
Jvm tuning for low latency application & CassandraQuentin Ambard
G1, CMS, Shenandoah, or Zing? Heap size at 8GB or 31GB? compressed pointers? Region size? What is the maximum break time? Throughput or Latency... What gain? MaxGCPauseMillis, G1HeapRegionSize, MaxTenuringThreshold, UnlockExperimentalVMOptions, ParallelGCThreads, InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent, G1RSetUpdatingPauseTimePercent, which parameters have the most impact?
The document discusses Spark, an open-source cluster computing framework. It describes Spark's Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD) as an immutable and partitioned collection that can automatically recover from node failures. RDDs can be created from data sources like files or existing collections. Transformations create new RDDs from existing ones lazily, while actions return values to the driver program. Spark supports operations like WordCount through transformations like flatMap and reduceByKey. It uses stages and shuffling to distribute operations across a cluster in a fault-tolerant manner. Spark Streaming processes live data streams by dividing them into batches treated as RDDs. Spark SQL allows querying data through SQL on DataFrames.
Optimal Execution Of MapReduce Jobs In Cloud - Voices 2015Deanna Kosaraju
Optimal Execution Of MapReduce Jobs In Cloud
Anshul Aggarwal, Software Engineer, Cisco Systems
Session Length: 1 Hour
Tue March 10 21:30 PST
Wed March 11 0:30 EST
Wed March 11 4:30:00 UTC
Wed March 11 10:00 IST
Wed March 11 15:30 Sydney
Voices 2015 www.globaltechwomen.com
We use MapReduce programming paradigm because it lends itself well to most data-intensive analytics jobs run on cloud these days, given its ability to scale-out and leverage several machines to parallel process data. Research has demonstrates that existing approaches to provisioning other applications in the cloud are not immediately relevant to MapReduce -based applications. Provisioning a MapReduce job entails requesting optimum number of resource sets (RS) and configuring MapReduce parameters such that each resource set is maximally utilized.
Each application has a different bottleneck resource (CPU :Disk :Network), and different bottleneck resource utilization, and thus needs to pick a different combination of these parameters based on the job profile such that the bottleneck resource is maximally utilized.
The problem at hand is thus defining a resource provisioning framework for MapReduce jobs running in a cloud keeping in mind performance goals such as Optimal resource utilization with Minimum incurred cost, Lower execution time, Energy Awareness, Automatic handling of node failure and Highly scalable solution.
Slides of the workshop conducted in Model Engineering College, Ernakulam, and Sree Narayana Gurukulam College, Kadayiruppu
Kerala, India in December 2010
This document discusses NoSQL databases and provides examples of different types. It begins by discussing motivations for NoSQL like performance, scalability, and flexibility over traditional relational databases. It then categorizes NoSQL databases as key-value stores like Redis and Tokyo Cabinet, column-oriented stores like BigTable and Cassandra, document-oriented stores like CouchDB and MongoDB, and graph databases like Neo4J. For each category it provides comparisons on attributes and examples using different languages.
This was the first session about Hadoop and MapReduce. It introduces what Hadoop is and its main components. It also covers the how to program your first MapReduce task and how to run it on pseudo distributed Hadoop installation.
This session was given in Arabic and i may provide a video for the session soon.
Introduction to MapReduce - Hadoop Streaming | Big Data Hadoop Spark Tutorial...CloudxLab
Big Data with Hadoop & Spark Training: http://bit.ly/2sh5b3E
This CloudxLab Hadoop Streaming tutorial helps you to understand Hadoop Streaming in detail. Below are the topics covered in this tutorial:
1) Hadoop Streaming and Why Do We Need it?
2) Writing Streaming Jobs
3) Testing Streaming jobs and Hands-on on CloudxLab
The document describes benchmark results achieved by using NVMe SSDs and GPU acceleration to improve the performance of PostgreSQL beyond typical limitations. A benchmark was run using 13 queries on a 1055GB dataset with PostgreSQL v11beta3 + PG-Strom v2.1. This achieved a maximum query execution throughput of 13.5GB/s. PG-Strom is an extension module that uses thousands of GPU cores and wide-band memory to accelerate SQL workloads. It generates GPU code from SQL and executes queries directly on the GPU, bypassing data transfers between CPU and GPU to improve performance.
The document discusses dense linear algebra solvers and algorithms. It provides an overview of existing software for dense linear algebra including LINPACK, EISPACK, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, PLASMA, and MAGMA. It then discusses challenges with dense linear algebra on modern hardware including distributed memory, heterogeneity, and the high cost of communication. It introduces tile algorithms as an approach to address these challenges compared to traditional LAPACK algorithms.
[Harvard CS264] 11b - Analysis-Driven Performance Optimization with CUDA (Cli...npinto
This document discusses performance optimization of GPU kernels. It outlines analyzing kernels to determine if they are limited by memory bandwidth, instruction throughput, or latency. The profiler can identify limiting factors by comparing memory transactions and instructions issued. Source code modifications for memory-only and math-only versions help analyze memory vs computation balance and latency hiding. The goal is to optimize kernels by addressing their most significant performance limiters.
Hash join is a type of join operation that uses a hash table to perform the join. There are three types of hash joins - optimal, onepass, and multipass. Optimal hash join performs the join entirely in memory, while onepass and multipass hash joins spill data to temporary storage due to insufficient memory. The size of the build table can impact the performance and memory requirements of the hash join, with smaller build tables generally requiring less memory but potentially more disk reads. The best build table depends on the relative sizes of the tables and available memory.
[Harvard CS264] 12 - Irregular Parallelism on the GPU: Algorithms and Data St...npinto
The document discusses irregular parallelism on GPUs and presents several algorithms and data structures for handling irregular workloads efficiently in parallel. It covers sparse matrix-vector multiplication using different sparse matrix formats. It also discusses compositing of fragments in parallel and presents a nested data parallel approach. The document describes challenges with parallel hashing and presents a two-level hashing scheme. It analyzes parallel task queues and work stealing techniques for load balancing irregular work. Throughout, it focuses on managing communication in addition to computation for optimal parallel performance.
This document outlines Andreas Klockner's presentation on GPU programming in Python using PyOpenCL and PyCUDA. The presentation covers an introduction to OpenCL, programming with PyOpenCL, run-time code generation, and perspectives on GPU programming in Python. OpenCL provides a common programming framework for heterogeneous parallel programming across CPUs, GPUs, and other processors. PyOpenCL and PyCUDA allow GPU programming from Python.
Revisiting Co-Processing for Hash Joins on the CoupledCpu-GPU Architecturemohamedragabslideshare
This document summarizes research on revisiting co-processing techniques for hash joins on coupled CPU-GPU architectures. It discusses three co-processing mechanisms: off-loading, data dividing, and pipelined execution. Off-loading involves assigning entire operators like joins to either the CPU or GPU. Data dividing partitions data between the processors. Pipelined execution aims to schedule workloads adaptively between the CPU and GPU to maximize efficiency on the coupled architecture. The researchers evaluate these approaches for hash join algorithms, which first partition, build hash tables, and probe tables on the input relations.
Halvar Flake: Why Johnny can’t tell if he is compromisedArea41
This document discusses the difficulty of determining if a computer system is compromised. It outlines several checks that could be done to verify control, such as verifying signatures on software binaries, firmware, and scripts. However, it finds that all of these checks ultimately fail due to issues like a lack of transparency, lack of standardization, and the potential for signing keys to be stolen without detection. It argues that fundamental changes are needed to infrastructure and practices to enable determining control, such as reducing the number of trusted code signing authorities, increasing transparency in software updates and signing processes, and reducing opacity in firmware and coprocessors.
Different algorithms can be used to implement joins in a database, including nested loop, block nested loop, indexed nested loop, merge, and hash joins. The optimal algorithm depends on factors like whether indexes are available on the joined attributes and the relative sizes and block distributions of the relations. Database tuning involves monitoring performance and adjusting aspects like indexes, queries, and design to improve response times and throughput.
How to Boost 100x Performance for Real World Application with Apache Spark-(G...Spark Summit
This document summarizes work done by an Intel software team in China to improve Apache Spark performance for real-world applications. It describes benchmarking tools like HiBench and profiling tools like HiMeter that were developed. It also discusses several case studies where the team worked with customers to optimize joins, manage memory usage, and reduce network bandwidth. The overall goal was to help solve common issues around ease of use, reliability, and scalability for Spark in production environments.
The document discusses network performance profiling of Hadoop jobs. It presents results from running two common Hadoop benchmarks - Terasort and Ranked Inverted Index - on different Amazon EC2 instance configurations. The results show that the shuffle phase accounts for a significant portion (25-29%) of total job runtime. They aim to reproduce existing findings that network performance is a key bottleneck for shuffle-intensive Hadoop jobs. Some questions are also raised about inconsistencies in reported network bandwidth capabilities for EC2.
1. The document discusses GPUs and their advantages for machine learning tasks like deep learning and parallel computing. GPUs have many parallel processors that can accelerate matrix multiplications and other computations used in machine learning algorithms.
2. It introduces CUDA and how it allows GPUs to be programmed for general purpose processing through a parallel computing model. Examples are given of how matrix multiplications and convolutional neural network operations can be parallelized on GPUs.
3. H2O is presented as a machine learning platform that supports GPU acceleration for algorithms like gradient boosted machines, enabling faster training on large datasets. Instructions are provided on getting started with CUDA, cuDNN and using GPUs for machine learning.
This document discusses the internals of the ixgbe driver, which is the Intel 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver for Linux. It describes how the driver handles transmission and reception of packets using ring buffers and NAPI. It also discusses how the driver supports eXpress Data Path (XDP) by using a separate ring for XDP packets and adjusting page reference counts to support XDP operations like redirection. Upcoming features that will improve XDP support for this driver are also mentioned.
Bringing AAA graphics to mobile platforms
This document discusses techniques for bringing console-level graphics to mobile platforms using tile-based deferred rendering GPUs common in smartphones and tablets. It provides an overview of the architecture of tile-based mobile GPUs like ImgTec SGX and how they process vertices and pixels in tiles. It then discusses optimizations for mobile like using multi-sample anti-aliasing to reduce memory usage, form-fitting alpha blended geometry, and avoiding buffer restores and resolves. Specific rendering techniques like god rays and character shadows are explained.
cachegrand: A Take on High Performance CachingScyllaDB
cachegrand is what happens when you throw in a mix a SIMD-accelerated hashtable — capable of performing parallel GET operations without locks or busy-wait loops (e.g. atomic operations) — with fibers, io_uring, your own I/O library, your own memory allocator, and an in-memory & on-disk time series database!
Written in C, built from scratch, natively modular - currently working on Redis compatibility — it's a platform that can deliver very high QPS with low latencies for caching and data streaming with the door open to supporting business logic in Rust & WebAssembly down the line.
This session will focus on developing techniques and OS components used highlighting how they can provide an extra boost to your platforms, no matter the programming language.
isca22-feng-menda_for sparse transposition and dataflow.pptxssuser30e7d2
MeNDA is a near-memory architecture that uses processing units deployed in DIMM buffer chips to perform sparse matrix transposition and SpMV through a multi-way merge algorithm. It presents a scalable solution by exploiting rank-level and DIMM-level parallelism. Evaluation shows MeNDA achieves speedups of 19x, 12x and 8x over CPU, GPU, and state-of-the-art SpMV accelerator implementations, respectively. It also reduces the transposition overhead in graph analytics from 126% to 5% by enabling in-situ processing.
The document summarizes preliminary results from a project comparing the performance of open source implementations of Pregel and related graph processing systems (Hama, Giraph, GPS) on single-source shortest path (SSSP) and PageRank algorithms. Initial results show that Hama does not scale well to larger graphs, while Giraph and GPS scale better. Further analysis of memory usage, network traffic, additional systems like GraphLab and Signal/Collect, and using Green-Marl to generate code for Giraph and GPS is still in progress.
Gridify your Spring application with Grid Gain @ Spring Italian Meeting 2008Sergio Bossa
Cheaper hardware and highly demanding applications make nowadays scalability a strong requirement: what will you say when your Boss will complain about more and more users waiting for that long task to complete before committing their transaction?
So take your application and make it scale with the Spring Framework, the leading full-stack solution for your Java applications, and Grid Gain, the most powerful Open Source production-ready grid computing framework!
In this talk you will learn about scalability principles, the
Map/Reduce pattern and how they\'re applied in Grid Gain for scaling out your Spring application.
MapReduce: Recap
•Programmers must specify:
map(k, v) → <k’, v’>*
reduce(k’, v’) → <k’, v’>*
–All values with the same key are reduced together
•Optionally, also:
partition(k’, number of partitions) → partition for k’
–Often a simple hash of the key, e.g., hash(k’) mod n
–Divides up key space for parallel reduce operations
combine(k’, v’) → <k’, v’>*
–Mini-reducers that run in memory after the map phase
–Used as an optimization to reduce network traffic
•The execution framework handles everything else…
This document provides an overview of NVIDIA's CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) programming model. It begins with introductions to GPU and GPGPU programming concepts. It then describes CUDA's architecture and programming model, including key concepts like kernels, threads, memory hierarchies, and heterogeneous programming between CPU and GPU. The document outlines CUDA C programming examples like vector addition. It also provides examples of CUDA C code for image erosion and discusses interfacing CUDA with OpenGL. In general, the document serves as an introduction and guide to programming with NVIDIA's CUDA platform for massively parallel GPU computing.
Computer Graphics - Lecture 01 - 3D Programming I💻 Anton Gerdelan
Here are a few key points about adding vertex colors to the example:
- Storing the color data in a separate buffer is cleaner than concatenating or interleaving it with the position data. This keeps the data layout simple.
- The vertex shader now has inputs for both the position (vp) and color (vc) attributes.
- The color is passed through as an output (fcolour) to the fragment shader.
- The position is still used to set gl_Position for transformation.
- The color input has to start in the vertex shader because that is where per-vertex attributes like color are interpolated across the primitive before being sampled in the fragment shader. The vertex shader interpolates the color value
The document provides an overview of graphics processing units (GPUs). It defines a GPU as a processor optimized for graphics, video, and visual computing. GPUs have a highly parallel architecture with thousands of smaller cores designed to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, unlike CPUs which have fewer serial cores. The document compares CPU and GPU architectures, describes the physical components of a GPU including the motherboard, graphics processor, memory, and display connector. It provides details on GPU memory, pipelines, and manufacturers like NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel. The document concludes with information on latest GPU technologies such as CUDA, PhysX, 3D Vision, and examples of high-end consumer GPUs.
The document summarizes the hardware, software configuration, and management of a large Hadoop cluster at Facebook. The cluster consists of 320 nodes arranged in 8 racks. The nodes are configured for different purposes like running the distributed file system, MapReduce jobs, and testing. Software like Hypershell and Cfengine are used for administration. Common issues and performance optimization techniques are also discussed.
Strava Labs: Exploring a Billion Activity Dataset from Athletes with Apache S...Databricks
At Strava we have extensively leveraged Apache Spark to explore our data of over a billion activities, from tens of millions of athletes. This talk will be a survey of the more unique and exciting applications: A Global Heatmap gives a ~2 meter resolution density map of one billion runs, rides, and other activities consisting of three trillion GPS points from 17 billion miles of exercise data. The heatmap was rewritten from a non-scalable system into a highly scalable Spark job enabling great gains in speed, cost, and quality. Locally sensitive hashing for GPS traces was used to efficiently cluster 1 billion activities. Additional processes categorize and extract data from each cluster, such as names and statistics. Clustering gives an automated process to extract worldwide geographical patterns of athletes.
Applications include route discovery, recommendation systems, and detection of events and races. A coarse spatiotemporal index of all activity data is stored in Apache Cassandra. Spark streaming jobs maintain this index and compute all space-time intersections (“flybys”) of activities in this index. Intersecting activity pairs are then checked for spatiotemporal correlation, indicated by connected components in the graph of highly correlated pairs form “Group Activities”, creating a social graph of shared activities and workout partners. Data from several hundred thousand runners was used to build an improved model of the relationship between running difficulty and elevation gradient (Grade Adjusted Pace).
This document discusses scaling machine learning using Apache Spark. It covers several key topics:
1) Parallelizing machine learning algorithms and neural networks to distribute computation across clusters. This includes data, model, and parameter server parallelism.
2) Apache Spark's Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) programming model which allows distributing data and computation across a cluster in a fault-tolerant manner.
3) Examples of very large neural networks trained on clusters, such as a Google face detection model using 1,000 servers and a IBM brain-inspired chip model using 262,144 CPUs.
GraphChi: Large-Scale Graph Computation on Just a PC
published by Aapo Kyrola, Guy Blelloch and Carlos Guestrin.
[OSDI 2012]
For handling large graph that containing millions of vertices and billions of edges, a distributed computing cluster is required. The amount of data that the graph contains is also large. By using cloud services we can easily perform operations on the graph in a distributed environment. But the distributed system has some disadvantages like concurrency, security, scalability and failure handling. The reason why large Graphs are so hard from system perspective is therefore in the computation. A bit surprising motivation comes from thinking about scalability in large scale. From the perspective of programmers, debugging and writing & optimizing distributed algorithms are hard.
Now such big problems if we are able to run in single machine with your IDE and its debugger then the productivity and efficiency would be better. GraphChi - a disk-based system able to computing on large scale of graph efficiently. For that a novel “parallel sliding windows” method is very useful. By using this method, GraphChi is able to execute several advanced data mining on very large graph using just a single consumer – level computer.
Clusters are complex, and expensive to scale, while in this new model, it is very simple we can double the throughput by doubling the machines. The industry wants to compute many tasks on the same graph. Cluster just to compute one single task. To compute tasks faster, you grow the cluster. But this work allows a different way. Since one machine can handle one big task, you can dedicate one task per machine.
This document discusses using automatic code generation methods for numerical linear algebra on heterogeneous high performance computing systems. It proposes a multi-stage programming approach using generative programming techniques to generate optimized linear solvers for both CPU and GPU. This includes defining a configuration space of parameters and patterns to combine hardware settings with properties of the linear system being solved. It also presents an implementation of a mixed-precision semi-normal equation method for solving linear least squares as an example generated solver.
Session four of my series on many cores turns to data, both big and small. Looks at MapReduce but approaches sideways from a classic computer science perspective.
A talk describing our experiences building monorepo at Pinterest.
This talk was presented at Mobile Summit'18 held at CapitalOne in SF on May 22, 2018.
The document discusses distributed tracing at Pinterest. It describes the motivation for building Pintrace due to limitations of existing tools with microservices. The key challenges in building Pintrace were instrumenting services, processing and storing trace data at scale, and visualizing traces. Pintrace is used for various applications like identifying slow services, debugging distributed requests, and end-to-end tracing from clients to backends. Lessons learned include the importance of user education and focusing instrumentation on valuable paths.
Sumankar Muriki presented on distributed tracing at Pinterest. He discussed 5 challenges in building Pintrace: 1) instrumenting services, 2) aggregating and reporting spans, 3) deploying instrumentation, 4) processing and storing traces, and 5) visualizing traces. Pintrace is used to understand, debug, and tune distributed systems by identifying services in a request, clock skew, duplicate computation, and more applications. Lessons learned include the importance of user education, beginning with desired outcomes, tracing valuable paths, and quality over quantity of traces.
The document discusses distributed tracing at Pinterest. It provides an overview of distributed tracing, describes the motivation and architecture of Pinterest's tracing system called PinTrace, and discusses challenges faced and lessons learned. PinTrace collects trace data from services using instrumentation and sends it to a collector via a Kafka pipeline. This allows PinTrace to provide insights into request flows and performance bottlenecks across Pinterest's microservices. Key challenges included ensuring data quality, scaling the infrastructure, and user education on tracing.
A presentation when you should design your dream language. This presentation contains everything you need to know about language design in a day to day job. This presentation was given by me ar Bangalore BarCamp.
- BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol designed by Bram Cohen in 2001 that achieves efficiency by offloading bandwidth costs to downloaders. It works by breaking files into pieces that are distributed among peers and uses a tit-for-tat incentive mechanism to encourage uploading.
- The protocol uses trackers and a distributed hash table to allow peers to find each other and exchange pieces of files using a rarest first piece selection strategy. This improves availability and download performance while handling high peer churn. Optimistic unchoking is also used to discover better download rates from peers.
- Extensions to BitTorrent include trackerless torrents using distributed hash tables, anonymity through proxying or encryption,
The document discusses Bluespec, a hardware description language that combines features of Haskell and SystemVerilog assertions (SVA). Bluespec models all state explicitly using guarded atomic actions on state. Behavior is expressed as rules with guards and actions. Assertions in Bluespec are compiled into finite state machines and checked concurrently as rules. The document provides an example of using Bluespec to write functional and performance assertions for a cache controller design.
Google File System (GFS) is a distributed file system designed for large streaming reads and appends on inexpensive commodity hardware. It uses a master-chunk server architecture to manage the placement of large files across multiple machines, provides fault tolerance through replication and versioning, and aims to balance high throughput and availability even in the presence of frequent failures. The consistency model allows for defined and undefined regions to support the needs of batch-oriented, data-intensive applications like MapReduce.
Introducing BoxLang : A new JVM language for productivity and modularity!Ortus Solutions, Corp
Just like life, our code must adapt to the ever changing world we live in. From one day coding for the web, to the next for our tablets or APIs or for running serverless applications. Multi-runtime development is the future of coding, the future is to be dynamic. Let us introduce you to BoxLang.
Dynamic. Modular. Productive.
BoxLang redefines development with its dynamic nature, empowering developers to craft expressive and functional code effortlessly. Its modular architecture prioritizes flexibility, allowing for seamless integration into existing ecosystems.
Interoperability at its Core
With 100% interoperability with Java, BoxLang seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional and modern development paradigms, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and collaboration.
Multi-Runtime
From the tiny 2m operating system binary to running on our pure Java web server, CommandBox, Jakarta EE, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Functions, Web Assembly, Android and more. BoxLang has been designed to enhance and adapt according to it's runnable runtime.
The Fusion of Modernity and Tradition
Experience the fusion of modern features inspired by CFML, Node, Ruby, Kotlin, Java, and Clojure, combined with the familiarity of Java bytecode compilation, making BoxLang a language of choice for forward-thinking developers.
Empowering Transition with Transpiler Support
Transitioning from CFML to BoxLang is seamless with our JIT transpiler, facilitating smooth migration and preserving existing code investments.
Unlocking Creativity with IDE Tools
Unleash your creativity with powerful IDE tools tailored for BoxLang, providing an intuitive development experience and streamlining your workflow. Join us as we embark on a journey to redefine JVM development. Welcome to the era of BoxLang.
Guidelines for Effective Data VisualizationUmmeSalmaM1
This PPT discuss about importance and need of data visualization, and its scope. Also sharing strong tips related to data visualization that helps to communicate the visual information effectively.
ScyllaDB Real-Time Event Processing with CDCScyllaDB
ScyllaDB’s Change Data Capture (CDC) allows you to stream both the current state as well as a history of all changes made to your ScyllaDB tables. In this talk, Senior Solution Architect Guilherme Nogueira will discuss how CDC can be used to enable Real-time Event Processing Systems, and explore a wide-range of integrations and distinct operations (such as Deltas, Pre-Images and Post-Images) for you to get started with it.
Enterprise Knowledge’s Joe Hilger, COO, and Sara Nash, Principal Consultant, presented “Building a Semantic Layer of your Data Platform” at Data Summit Workshop on May 7th, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts.
This presentation delved into the importance of the semantic layer and detailed four real-world applications. Hilger and Nash explored how a robust semantic layer architecture optimizes user journeys across diverse organizational needs, including data consistency and usability, search and discovery, reporting and insights, and data modernization. Practical use cases explore a variety of industries such as biotechnology, financial services, and global retail.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
CTO Insights: Steering a High-Stakes Database MigrationScyllaDB
In migrating a massive, business-critical database, the Chief Technology Officer's (CTO) perspective is crucial. This endeavor requires meticulous planning, risk assessment, and a structured approach to ensure minimal disruption and maximum data integrity during the transition. The CTO's role involves overseeing technical strategies, evaluating the impact on operations, ensuring data security, and coordinating with relevant teams to execute a seamless migration while mitigating potential risks. The focus is on maintaining continuity, optimising performance, and safeguarding the business's essential data throughout the migration process
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 2DianaGray10
This session is focused on setting up Project, Train Model and Refine Model in Communication Mining platform. We will understand data ingestion, various phases of Model training and best practices.
• Administration
• Manage Sources and Dataset
• Taxonomy
• Model Training
• Refining Models and using Validation
• Best practices
• Q/A
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
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In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
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MongoDB to ScyllaDB: Technical Comparison and the Path to SuccessScyllaDB
What can you expect when migrating from MongoDB to ScyllaDB? This session provides a jumpstart based on what we’ve learned from working with your peers across hundreds of use cases. Discover how ScyllaDB’s architecture, capabilities, and performance compares to MongoDB’s. Then, hear about your MongoDB to ScyllaDB migration options and practical strategies for success, including our top do’s and don’ts.
An All-Around Benchmark of the DBaaS MarketScyllaDB
The entire database market is moving towards Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), resulting in a heterogeneous DBaaS landscape shaped by database vendors, cloud providers, and DBaaS brokers. This DBaaS landscape is rapidly evolving and the DBaaS products differ in their features but also their price and performance capabilities. In consequence, selecting the optimal DBaaS provider for the customer needs becomes a challenge, especially for performance-critical applications.
To enable an on-demand comparison of the DBaaS landscape we present the benchANT DBaaS Navigator, an open DBaaS comparison platform for management and deployment features, costs, and performance. The DBaaS Navigator is an open data platform that enables the comparison of over 20 DBaaS providers for the relational and NoSQL databases.
This talk will provide a brief overview of the benchmarked categories with a focus on the technical categories such as price/performance for NoSQL DBaaS and how ScyllaDB Cloud is performing.
For senior executives, successfully managing a major cyber attack relies on your ability to minimise operational downtime, revenue loss and reputational damage.
Indeed, the approach you take to recovery is the ultimate test for your Resilience, Business Continuity, Cyber Security and IT teams.
Our Cyber Recovery Wargame prepares your organisation to deliver an exceptional crisis response.
Event date: 19th June 2024, Tate Modern
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
So You've Lost Quorum: Lessons From Accidental DowntimeScyllaDB
The best thing about databases is that they always work as intended, and never suffer any downtime. You'll never see a system go offline because of a database outage. In this talk, Bo Ingram -- staff engineer at Discord and author of ScyllaDB in Action --- dives into an outage with one of their ScyllaDB clusters, showing how a stressed ScyllaDB cluster looks and behaves during an incident. You'll learn about how to diagnose issues in your clusters, see how external failure modes manifest in ScyllaDB, and how you can avoid making a fault too big to tolerate.
Radically Outperforming DynamoDB @ Digital Turbine with SADA and Google CloudScyllaDB
Digital Turbine, the Leading Mobile Growth & Monetization Platform, did the analysis and made the leap from DynamoDB to ScyllaDB Cloud on GCP. Suffice it to say, they stuck the landing. We'll introduce Joseph Shorter, VP, Platform Architecture at DT, who lead the charge for change and can speak first-hand to the performance, reliability, and cost benefits of this move. Miles Ward, CTO @ SADA will help explore what this move looks like behind the scenes, in the Scylla Cloud SaaS platform. We'll walk you through before and after, and what it took to get there (easier than you'd guess I bet!).
3. Introduction
• Utilizing hardware features of the GPU
– Massive thread parallelism
– Fast inter-processor communication
– High memory bandwidth
– Coalesced access
9. Algorithms on GPU
• Tips for algorithm design
– Use the inherent concurrency.
– Keep SIMD nature in mind.
– Algorithms should be side-effect free.
– Memory properties:
• High memory bandwidth.
• Coalesced access (for spatial locality)
• Cache in local memory (for temporal locality)
• Access memory via indices and offsets.
11. Design and Implementation
• A complete set of parallel primitives:
– Map, scatter, gather, prefix scan, split, and
sort
• Low synchronization overhead.
• Scalable to hundreds of processors.
• Applicable to joins as well as other relational query
operators.
15. Prefix Scan
• A prefix scan applies a binary operator on the input
of size n and produces an output of size n.
• Ex: Prefix sum: cumulative sum of all elements to
the left of the current element.
– Exclusive (used in paper)
– Inclusive
22. Sort
• Bitonic sort
– Uses sorting networks, O(N log2N).
• Quick sort
– partition using a random pivot until partition fits in
local memory
– Sort each partition using bitonic sort.
– Partioning can be parallelized using split.
– Complexity is O(N logN).
– 30% faster than bitonic sort in experiments
– Use Quick sort for sorting
27. NINLJ on GPU
• Block nested
• Uses Map primitive on both relations
– Partition R into R’ and S into S’ blocks
respectively.
– Create R’ x S’ thread groups
– A thread in a thread group processes one
tuple from R’ and matches all tuples from S’.
– All tuples in S’ are in local cache.
28. B+ Tree vs CSS Tree
• B+ tree imposes
– Memory stalls when traversed (no spatial locality)
– Can’t perform multiple searches ( loses temporal
locality).
• CSS-Tree (Cache optimized search tree)
– One dimensional array where nodes are indexed.
– Replaces traversal with computation.
– Can also perform parallel key lookups.
29. Indexed Nested Loop Join (INLP)
• Uses Map primitive on outer relation
• Uses CSS tree for index.
• For each block in outer relation R
– Start with a root node to find the next level
• Binary search is shown to be better than sequential search.
– Go down until you find the data node.
• Upper level nodes are cached in local memory
since they are frequently accessed.
30. Sort Merge Join
• Sort the relations R, S using the sort primitive
• Merge phase
– Break S into chunks (s’) of size M.
– Find first and last key values of each chunk in s’ and
partition R into those many chunks.
– Merge all chunks in parallel using map
• Each thread group handles a pair
• Each thread compares 1 tuple in R with s’ using binary
search.
• Chunk size is chosen to fit in local memory.
31. Hash Join
• Uses split primitive on both relations
• Developed a parallel version of radix hash join
– Partitioning
• Split R and S into the same number of partitions, so S
partitions fit into the local memory
– Matching
• Choose smaller one of R and S partitions as inner partition to
be loaded into local memory
• Larger relation will be used as the outer relation
• Each tuple from outer relation uses a search on the inner
relation for matching.
32. Lock-Free Scheme for Result
Output
• Problems
– Unknown join result size. Max size of joins
doesn’t fit in memory.
– Concurrent writes are not atomic.
33. Lock-Free Scheme for Result
Output
• Solution: Three-phase scheme
– Each thread counts the number of join results.
– Compute a prefix sum on the counts to get an
array of write locations and the total number
of results generated by the join.
– Host code allocates memory on device.
– Run join again with outputs.
• Run joins twice. That’s ok, GPU’s are fast.
36. Workload
• R and S tables with 2 integer columns.
• SELECT R.rid, S.rid FROM R, S WHERE <predicate>
• SELECT R.rid, S.rid FROM R, S WHERE R.rid=S.rid
• SELECT R.rid, S.rid FROM R, S WHERE
R.rid<=S.rid<=R.rid + k
• Tested on all combinations:
– Fix R, Vary S. All values uniform distribution. |R| = 1M
– Performance impact varying join selectivity. |R| = |S| = 16M
– Non – uniform distribution of data sizes and also varying join
selectivity. |R| = |S| = 16M
• Also tested with columns as strings.
37. Implementation Details on CPU
• Highly optimized primitives and join
algorithms matching hardware architecture
• Tuned for cache performance.
• Compiled programs using MSVC 8.0 with
full optimizations.
• Used openMP for threading mechanisms.
• 2-6X faster than their sequential counter
parts.
38. Implementation Details on GPU
• CUDA parameters
– Number of thread groups (128)
– Number of threads for each thread group (64)
– Block size is 4MB (main memory to device
memory)
44. CUDA vs. DirectX10
• DirectX10 is difficult to program, because
the data is stored as textures.
• NINLJ and INLJ have similar performance.
• HJ and SMJ are slower because of texture
decoding.
• Summary: low level primitives on GPGPU
are better than graphics primitives on
GPU.
45. Criticisms
• Applications of skew handling are unclear.
• Primitives are sufficient to implement the
given joins, but they do not prove the set
of primitives to be minimal.
46. Limitations and future research
directions
• Lack of synchronization mechanisms for
handling read/write conflicts on GPU.
• More primitives.
• More open GPGPU hardware spec for
optimizations.
• Power consumption on GPU.
• Lack of support for complex data types.
• On GPU in-memory database.
• Automatic detection of thread groups and
number of threads using program analysis
techniques.
47. Conclusion
• GPU-based primitives and join algorithms
achieve a speedup of 2-27X over
optimized CPU-based counterparts.
• NINLJ, 7.0X; INLJ, 6.1X; SMJ, 2.4X; HJ,
1.9X
51. Skew Handling
• Skew in data results in an imbalanced
partition size in partitioned-based
algorithms (SMJ and HJ)
• Solution
– Identify partitions that do not fit into the local
memory
– Decompose partitions into multiple chunks the
size of local memory
52. Implementation Details on GPU
• CUDA parameters
– Number of threads for each thread group
– Number of thread groups
• DirectX10
– Join algorithms implemented using
programmable pipeline
• Vertex shader, geometry shader, and pixel shader