Reviews for paper Real-Time Pattern Matching with FPGAs, submitted to ICDE 2011.

Overall rating: accept

Reviewer 1

Overall Recommendation (Please be decisive toward a clear accept or reject choice.)

Strong Accept

Presentation (Please indicate whether the paper is written in an acceptable manner for ICDE; badly written papers should be marked as unacceptable).

Excellent

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Medium

Summary of the paper (what is being proposed and in what context; short explanation of the recommendation). One paragraph

The proposal is based on a recent PVLDB paper by the same authors, and demonstrates how to compile CEP quries into FPGA specifications. It very clearly describes setup, goals and demonstration "script". The topic is fun.

Detailed comments

I cannot find serious defects with the demo proposal, other than that I miss some hints on what the performance or price/performance comparison to a regular machine looks like.

Reviewer 2

Overall Recommendation (Please be decisive toward a clear accept or reject choice.)

Weak Accept

Presentation (Please indicate whether the paper is written in an acceptable manner for ICDE; badly written papers should be marked as unacceptable).

Good

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Medium

Summary of the paper (what is being proposed and in what context; short explanation of the recommendation). One paragraph

This demo presents a fast stream monitor for complex event patterns implemented using FPGA. The demo illustrates the working of a pattern specification to hardware compilation.

Detailed comments

+ Addresses a practical problem
+ Nice for demo to provide hooks for participants to examine how the system works
+ The combination of software/hardware makes this an interesting demo that is quite different from the software demo

Reviewer 3

Overall Recommendation (Please be decisive toward a clear accept or reject choice.)

Accept

Presentation (Please indicate whether the paper is written in an acceptable manner for ICDE; badly written papers should be marked as unacceptable).

Good

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Medium

Summary of the paper (what is being proposed and in what context; short explanation of the recommendation). One paragraph

This paper proposes to demonstrate real-time complex event pattern matching using FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) hardware. It would make an interesting demo as the audience sees how to program, compile, and run complex event queries on FPGA. As the highlight of the system is its performance, it would be great to set up a scenario that the FPGA runs at its near-peak capacity on site instead of only showing the performance figures from the author's previous paper. Additionally, since the paper's target applications are in high-throughput areas such as financial trading or network monitoring, it would be more interesting to set up such an application scenario rather than using a generic multi-step web form.

Detailed comments

None

Related Information

• submission (PDF)
• final paper (PDF) — published at ICDE 2011