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2009
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Data Processing on FPGAs
VLDB 2009 Reviews
are commodity devices too. W2. The 8-way median operator is one relatively uninteresting operator from a database point of view. (a) While the authors say they choose 8 for ease of illustration, it appears [...] time to the operation. Also, if I understand this experiment correctly, it involves repeatedly sorting 8 32-bit tuples. My understanding is that for sorting such a small number of things, one should never [...] designing the code running on the FPGA, why not have an equally carefully designed custom sort for the 8 integers in the window, rather than using algorithms designed to sort large sets of ints? Maybe the …