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FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs

Summary: FAST is architecture-sensitive binary-tree index layout for CPUs/GPUs, aligned to cache lines, page size, and SIMD to reduce traversal latency. 50M CPU/GPU queries/sec (5x/1.7x faster); bulk rebuilds <0.1s for 64M keys; compression mitigates memory bandwidth. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h4c198aad1e560d80
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.00022267903
Overall Rank
280 | 98.13%
DOI
10.1145/1807167.1807206

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kim_sigmod10,
        title = {{FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs}},
        author = {Kim, Changkyu and Chhugani, Jatin and Satish, Nadathur and Sedlar, Eric and Nguyen, Anthony D. and Kaldewey, Tim and Lee, Victor W. and Brandt, Scott A. and Dubey, Pradeep},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807206},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807206},
        year = {2010}
}

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