Diversity of Processing Units

摘要

Recent hardware developments are providing a plethora of alternatives to well-known general-purpose processing units. This development reaches into all major directions, i.e., into high-speed and low latency communications systems, novel memory components as well as a zoo of different processing units in addition to the traditional CPU-style processors. While all developments have great impact on the design of database systems, we will try-in the context of this Kurz Erklärt-to categorize recent advances in the context of processing units and comment on the impact on database systems.