Next-Generation Hardware for Data Management - more a
                  Blessing than a Curse?
                                                              [Abstract]
                                                         Wolfgang Lehner
                                                  Technische Universität Dresden
                                                        Noethnitzer Str. 46
                                                        Dresden, Germany
                                              wolfgang.lehner@tu-dresden.de

ABSTRACT                                                                   About the Author
Recent hardware developments have touched almost all com-                  Wolfgang Lehner is full professor and head of the database
ponents of a computing system: the existence of many and                   technology group at the TU Dresden, Germany. His re-
potentially heterogeneous cores, the availability of volatile              search is dedicated to database system architecture specifi-
and non-volatile main memories with an ever growing ca-                    cally looking at crosscutting aspects from algorithms down
pacity, and the emergence of economically affordable, high-                to hardware-related aspects in main-memory centric set-
speed/low-latency interconnects are only a few prominent                   tings. He is part of TU Dresden’s excellence cluster with
examples. Every single development as well as their combi-                 research topics in energy-aware scheduling, resilient data
nation has a massive impact on the design of modern com-                   structures on unreliable hardware, and orchestration of wildly
puting systems. However, it is still an open question, if, how,            heterogeneous systems; he is also a principal investigator of
and at which level of detail, a database system has to explic-             Germany’s national ”Competence Center for Scalable Data
itly be aware of those developments and exploit them using                 Services and Solutions” (ScaDS); Wolfgang also maintains
specifically designed algorithms and data structures. Within               a close research relationship with the SAP HANA develop-
the talk I will try to give an answer to this question and ar-             ment team. He serves the community in many PCs, is an
gue for a clear roadmap of HW/SW-DB-CoDesign especially                    elected member of the VLDB Endowment, serves on the re-
providing an outlook to upcoming technologies and discus-                  view board of the German Research Foundation (DFG), and
sion of their non-functional properties like energy-efficiency             is an appointed member of the Academy of Europe.
and resilience behavior.




27th GI-Workshop on Foundations of Databases (Grundlagen von Daten-
banken), 26.05.2015 - 29.05.2015, Magdeburg, Germany.
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