Speaker:

Bradley C. Kuszmaul

Date:

Thu Oct 16, 2014 @ 12:00pm EDT

Date:

Thu Oct 16, 2014

Time:

12:00pm EDT

Location:

CIC - 4th floor (ISTC Panther Hollow Room)

Title:

State-of-the-Art Database Index Maintenance

System:

Tokutek

Video:

YouTube

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Talk Info:

This talk will discuss how B-trees, Log-Structured Merge Trees and Streaming B-trees operate, and what is their asymptotic performance.

Part of the “Seven Databases in Seven Weeks” Seminar Series: http://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2014

Bio:

Dr. Bradley C. Kuszmaul is a founder and Chief Architect at Tokutek and is a Research Scientist in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Bradley's research focuses on developing computer systems and hardware that behave well both in practice and in theory. His entry won 5 out of 6 categories in Jim Gray's 2007 "sorting benchmark contest" (http://sortbenchmark.org), sorting a terabyte in 197 seconds (he still holds the world record for sorting a terabyte since they retired that category in 2009). He formerly architected Akamai's distributed data collection system, was a Yale Professor of Computer Science and was a principal network architect for the Thinking Machines Connection Machine CM-5 supercomputer. He was one of the developers of the MIT Cilk multithreaded programming system (and now Cilk appears both in gcc and in icc, the Intel compiler). He wrote, in Cilk, winning entries for 4 out of 12 of problems in the 2009 Intel Threading Challenge. His most recent research investigates cache-oblivious data structures for maintaining indexes on SSD and disk.

More Info: http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/2014/101614.html

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