1. Impact of the convergence of three worlds: High-Performance Computing, Databases, and Analytics Stefan Manegold Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/

2. 2 HPC (!)

3. 3 Database

4. 4 Analytics (?)

5. 5 Cluster http://www.scilens.org/

6. Our new Playground & Challenge 128 Pebbles: dual-core AMD bobcat, 8GB RAM, 10 TB HDD 128 bricks: 4-core HT i7, 16GB RAM, 2 TB HDD, 1 TB SSD 256 cores, 1 TB RAM, 1.3 PB HDD 1024 cores, 2 TB RAM, 256 TB HDD, 128 TB SSD 16 rocks: 2x 8-core HT Xeon, 256 GB RAM, 4+ GPUs, 8 TB HDD, 2 TB SSD; 48 TB NAS 512 cores, 4 TB RAM, 4+ GPUs, 128 TB HDD, 32 TB SSD; 48 TB NAS 1+ diamonds: 64+ cores, 4+ TB RAM, X GPUs, Y TB SSD, Z...

7. 7 The Memory Wall

8. 8 Trip to memory = 1000s of instructions!

9. Larger, faster, cheaper and more responsive memory sub-systems + memory-optimized DBMS =...

16. In the multi-core age, how do larger, faster, cheaper and more responsive memory sub-systems affect data management?

17. In the age of larger, faster, cheaper and more responsive memory sub-systems, how do multi- (or even many-) core systems affect data management? In the multi-core age, how do larger, faster, cheaper and more responsive memory sub-systems affect data management?

18. Bandwidth bottleneck: How to feed all these cores? How to exploit excess CPU cycles usefully? Exploit TurboBoost: Instructions per data dependent MPL Energy consumption: WATTs per GB of DRAM vs. Flash vs. Disk System maintenance and opertation: How to bootstrap a multi-TB (PB?) RAM system? Hot-swapable DRAM?... Shopping List Excerpt