Abstract
Power consumption in data centres is a growing issue as the cost of the power for computation and cooling has become dominant. An emerging challenge is the development of "environmentally friendly" systems. In this paper we present a novel application of FPGAs for the acceleration of Information Retrieval algorithms, specifically, filtering streams/collections of documents against topic profiles. Our results show that FPGA acceleration can result in speed-ups of up to a factor 20 for large profiles.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | FPL 09 |
Subtitle of host publication | 19th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 417-422 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781424438921 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 25 Nov 2009 |
Event | FPL 09: 19th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 31 Aug 2009 → 2 Sept 2009 |
Conference
Conference | FPL 09: 19th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications |
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Country/Territory | Czech Republic |
City | Prague |
Period | 31/08/09 → 2/09/09 |
Keywords
- information retrieval
- information filtering
- information filters
- field programmable gate arrays
- filtering algorithms
- computer centres
- document handling