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couple weeks ago at VeloxCon one of the days was dedicated to GPU processing (the other being AI/ML data preprocessing); the cuDF team talked about their Velox integration as well. for those interested, might worth to check it out.

disclaimer: my team is working on this very problem as well, as I was a speaker at VeloxCon.

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Just checked out Velox. It's awesome that you're reducing duplicate eng effort! What was your talk about?

I was part of the panel discussion at the end of the 2nd day discussing hardware acceleration for query processing. before the panel there were very interesting talks about various approaches on how to get to the end goal, which is to efficiently use hardware (non-x86 CPUs, so mostly either GPUs or FPGAs/custom chips) to speed up queries.

Since you mentioned non-x86, how are things on the ARM side? I believe I heard AWS's Graviton + Correto combo was a huge increase for JVM efficiency.

FPGAs... I somehow highly doubt their efficiency in terms of being the "core" (heh) processor. However, "compute storage" with FPGAs right next to the flash is really interesting.

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