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Adam Neumann
neumaa01@student.uwa.edu.au

Entry year: 2008
Enrolment status: checked and confirmed
Degree: BCompSci/BE
Degree status: complete semester 2, 2008

Project: Processing OLAP Data Cube on GPU
Supervisor(s): Amitava Datta
Project status: complete semester 2, 2008


There is a growing demand for better Business Intelligence solutions to aid in decision making from businesses globally. On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) databases process data offline to enable the fast evaluation of queries on-line. However current data sets are large and growing, and their processing is constrained by storage, processing and time resources. Modern graphics cards, which are more like flexible and powerful general purpose computing devices, are an alternative platform for running OLAP databases. The devices sit largely idle in business computers and their performance is growing much faster than traditional CPU devices. In this project we aim to run an OLAP database on a graphics card; it is hoped this will significantly decrease the off-line processing time required. Successful completion of this project will highlight another use for graphics cards outside of the graphics and visualisation domains.

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Dissertation 		Last update: Fri Feb 20 16:25:15 2009
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