The proposal "Databases on Future Hardware" was accepted as a one-week seminar in the well-known Dagstuhl castle. The seminar will bring together experts from the hardware and software communities to discuss about the future of data-centric systems. The seminar will take place March 5-10, 2017. Co-organizers are Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich, CH), Michaela Blott (Xilinx Labs, IE), and Jens Teubner (TU Dortmund University, DE).
The proposal "Databases on Future Hardware" was accepted as a one-week seminar in the well-known Dagstuhl castle. The seminar will bring together experts from the hardware and software communities to discuss about the future of data-centric systems.
Hardware technology is at a crossroad that will disrupt the way we build and use database systems. Heterogeneous system architectures will replace the prevalent multi-core designs and leverage the dark silicon principle to combat power limitations. Non-volatile memories bring persistence at the speed of current DRAM chips. High-speed interconnects allow for parallelism at unprecedented scalesbut also force software to deal with distributed systems characteristics (e.g., locality, unreliability).
It is not clear yet, how precisely the new systems are going to look likehardware makers are still figuring out which configurations will yield the best price/performance trade-offs. Nor is it clear how redesigned software could look like to take advantage of the new hardware. The key goal of this Dagstuhl seminar is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both the hardware and software sides. During the 5-day workshop, hardware architects, system designers, experts in query processing and transaction management will discuss the challenges and opportunities involved, so hard- and software can evolve together, rather than only individually and independently.
The seminar will be held March 5-10, 2017 at Dagstuhl.