The CMU Database group is holding a semester-long seminar series with the leading developers of DBMSs designed for modern hardware (e.g., GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs). The Hardware Accelerated Database Lectures is designed to showcase some of the newer technologies available for data-intensive applications. Each speaker will present the implementation details of their respective systems and examples of the technical challenges that they faced when working with real-world customers.

The list of confirmed speakers are:

Sep 6 – Nima Negahban (Kinetica)
Sep 20 – Todd Mostak (MapD)
Oct 4 – Jake Wheat (SQream)
Oct 25 – Felipe Aramburu (BlazingDB)
Nov 1 – Richard Heyns (Brytlyt)
Nov 29 – Karsten Rönner (Swarm64)

Videos will be posted after each talk. See the seminar website for the full schedule.