NEC Technology Enables the Design of High-Speed Big Data Processing Hardware in 1/50 the Time
NEC Technology Enables the Design of High-Speed Big Data Processing Hardware in 1/50 the Time- Technology enables processing content to be changed without shutting down systems -
Tokyo, August 31, 2012 - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has developed technology that enables users to quickly and easily design hardware for the high-speed real-time analytical processing of big data, even if they do not have expert knowledge.
- Permits the use of SQL for designing hardware, reducing design time to approximately 1/50 of the previous time
NEC has developed design technology that permits the use of CyberWorkBench, a circuit synthesis technology for the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) owned by NEC, to automatically convert software designed using SQL, which is widely used for the analytical processing of big data, to dedicated hardware on FPGA. This permits users in charge of data analysis to design FPGA directly using SQL, a familiar programming language. This means that circuit design work by engineers is no longer necessary, and the time required for developing hardware, which conventionally takes several months, is reduced to approximately 1/50 of the time, or several hours.
NEC has developed a hardware processing mechanism that switches between data processing content instantaneously, while operating the circuit for the old processing and a circuit for the new processing in parallel. Previously, processing had to be halted for several milliseconds when changing processing content since the circuit for the old processing had to be reconfigured for the new processing. The newly developed mechanism reduces the shutdown time to nanoseconds, or approximately 1/1,000,000 of the previous time. This enables dynamic corrections and processing changes without shutting down the system.
NEC will continue to carry out research and development with the aim of providing the technology as a real-time big data processing solution using hardware by the close of the fiscal year ending March 2015.
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