Distinguished Lecturer Series (Computer Science)

Wolfgang Lehner (TU Dresden) gives an invited lecture on „Next-Generation Hardware for Big Data Management – more a Blessing than a Curse?“.

More information on the lecture can be found on the  info page of FSU’s faculty for math and computer science.

A general overview on the Distinguished Lecturer Series is available by following this link.

Abstract

Recent hardware developments have touched almost all components of a computing system: the existence of many and potentially heterogeneous cores, the availability of volatile and non-volatile main memories with an ever growing capacity, and the emergence of economically affordable, high-speed/low-latency interconnects are only a few prominent examples. Every single development as well as their combination has a massive impact on the design of modern computing systems especially in the context of Big Data. However, it is still an open question, if, how, and at which level of detail, a database system has to explicitly be aware of those developments and exploit them using specifically designed algorithms and data structures. Within the lecture talk I will try to give an answer to this question and argue for a clear roadmap of HW/SW-DB-CoDesign especially providing an outlook to upcoming technologies and discussion of their non-functional properties like energy-efficiency and resilience behavior.