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Revisiting Co-Processing for Hash Joins on the Coupled CPU-GPU Architecture

Jiong He, Mian Lu, Bingsheng He
Nanyang Technological University
arXiv:1307.1955 [cs.DC], (8 Jul 2013)

@article{2013arXiv1307.1955H,

   author={He}, J. and {Lu}, M. and {He}, B.},

   title={"{Revisiting Co-Processing for Hash Joins on the Coupled CPU-GPU Architecture}"},

   journal={ArXiv e-prints},

   archivePrefix={"arXiv"},

   eprint={1307.1955},

   primaryClass={"cs.DC"},

   keywords={Computer Science – Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing},

   year={2013},

   month={jul},

   adsurl={http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013arXiv1307.1955H},

   adsnote={Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}

}

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Query co-processing on graphics processors (GPUs) has become an effective means to improve the performance of main memory databases. However, the relatively low bandwidth and high latency of the PCI-e bus are usually bottleneck issues for co-processing. Recently, coupled CPU-GPU architectures have received a lot of attention, e.g. AMD APUs with the CPU and the GPU integrated into a single chip. That opens up new opportunities for optimizing query co-processing. In this paper, we experimentally revisit hash joins, one of the most important join algorithms for main memory databases, on a coupled CPU-GPU architecture. Particularly, we study the fine-grained co-processing mechanisms on hash joins with and without partitioning. The co-processing outlines an interesting design space. We extend existing cost models to automatically guide decisions on the design space. Our experimental results on a recent AMD APU show that (1) the coupled architecture enables fine-grained co-processing and cache reuses, which are inefficient on discrete CPU-GPU architectures; (2) the cost model can automatically guide the design and tuning knobs in the design space; (3) fine-grained co-processing achieves up to 53%, 35% and 28% performance improvement over CPU-only, GPU-only and conventional CPU-GPU co-processing, respectively. We believe that the insights and implications from this study are initial yet important for further research on query co-processing on coupled CPU-GPU architectures.
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