High Speed Query Execution with Accelerators and C++ - Lecture

Explore the cutting-edge developments in hardware acceleration for big data analytics in this CppCon 2022 conference talk. Delve into the challenges of creating a hardware accelerator for diverse computational workloads and learn how Speedata is developing the first such accelerator. Discover the innovative approach of combining C++ and Python to dynamically generate custom query code for a massively parallel processor. Examine the aggressive metaprogramming framework that pushes C++ to its limits and understand why C++17 and C++20 are crucial for this development. Gain insights into code generation techniques, optimization tricks, and the importance of modern C++ standards in revolutionizing big data and analytics processing.