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MySQL Conference: Presentation At The Kickfire Booth
Posted by Artem Russakovskii on April 15th, 2008 in Databases
Updated: April 17th, 2008
I had a chance to visit the Kickfire booth after the keynotes and before the first presentation. They gave me a kicking t-shirt, followed by a presentation on the newly announced Kickfire appliance (now in beta, shipping in Fall 2008). Here are some notes I jotted down:
- von Neumann bottleneck
- SQL chip (SQC), packs the power of 10s of conventional CPUs
- Query parallelization on the chip
- On-chip memory – 64GB. No registers – no von Neumann bottleneck
- Beats the performance of a given 3 server, 32 CPU, 130TB box (1TB of actual data – space is used for
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