No.031 Many-cores and On-chip Interconnects

We are facing two competing trends in ICT: Big data and green datacenters.
Since data reuse and repurposing are now expected to make innovations, IT equipments will be rapidly augmented for Big data, while energy-saving is essential for datacenters from a preventing global warming point of view.
To fill in the gap between these trends, we are studying FPGA-based database processing engines that support various structured storages or polyglot persistence. Since main bottleneck of conventional software-based memcached is
related to TCP/IP stack, we are now considering the integration of hardware-based network stack and these database processing engines in FPGA-based platforms.