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Query Processing on Heterogeneous CPU/GPU Systems

Viktor Rosenfeld
Sebastian Breß
Volker Markl

January 17, 2022

Due to their high computational power and internal memory bandwidth, graphic processing units (GPUs) have been extensively studied by the database systems research community. A heterogeneous query processing system that employs CPUs and GPUs at the same time has to solve many challenges, including how to distribute the workload on processors with different capabilities; how to overcome the data transfer bottleneck; and how to support implementations for multiple processors efficiently. In this survey we devise a classification scheme to categorize techniques developed to address these challenges. Based on this scheme, we categorize query processing systems on heterogeneous CPU/GPU systems and identify open research problems.

https://doi.org/10.1145/3485126