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Re:Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale by sixdimensional on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @04:59PM (#12355214)
Most likely I believe the answer is yes. But since these appliances have been proprietary, not much is publicly known about what they do internally. I suspect that some design like the one we are seeing here at Baidu has been their secret sauce for some time.
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Re:Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale by miguelbar on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @11:08PM (#12356750)
It's no secret. Netezza has been using FPGAs since the beginning. Here is a link to a paper that describes the Netezza approach: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4725.pdf

The Baidu approach seems very similar.

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