Processor design has moved away from relying on higher frequencies which require more power to parallelism, in which the CPU contains more cores and can perform more work per time unit. Applications ...

Lately, vectorization, an optimization technique synonymous with early vector supercomputers like the Cray-1 (1975), has reappeared with even greater importance than before. Exploiting the performance ...

The financial sector is heavily data driven. Every day, trillions of data is generated by the global financial system; these data sets are the bedrock of the financial system since they support a ...

Although a serious engineering challenge, database vectorization delivers orders-of-magnitude performance boosts for a real-time analytics engine such as StarRocks. Here’s how we did it. Improving ...