Application and Middleware Systems Research Group, I13 (Prof. Dr. H. - A. Jacobsen) Master Thesis “Flexible Query Processor on NetFPGA” – Port, Adaptation, and Debugging of a Custom-designed Stream Processor By advance in the technology Big data analytic has introduced itself as one of the major challenges, gaining large attention in the current research fields. As a trend to address some of shortcomings in event stream processing and in response to the growing demands for low-latency and high-throughput processing, we have proposed a customdesigned ﬂexible query processor (FQP). The proposed processor has the capability of accepting new queries (instructions) in an on-line fashion separating it from the state-of-art works. FQP features a hardware part namely online reconﬁgurable query engine (ORQE) as its processing core which we have realized on FPGA development board (ML-505). ORQE has on-line programmable block (OP-Block) as its major building block. OP-Blocks are multi-port processors with the capability of being attached together in diﬀerent topologies like LEGO puzzles. This thesis extends the current design of FQP, which is already implemented on ML-505 board, by porting it to NetFPGA board. The main feature of NetFPGA board is its specialty to work as network nodes. Therefore, we work on two case studies related to event stream processing to realize on FQP. As the processor porting task is done, running new test cases is rather straight forward since they are expressed in instructions and no change in hardware is required. This processor is under development to add more features and capabilities; as a result, there is a good chance to profoundly pinpoint issues faced in the debugging phases. Description of the task Prerequisites          FQP design understanding NetFPGA setup Porting FQP design to NetFPGA board Debugging Experiments Documentation Use Multiple NetFPGA boards to realize a large design (future work)  Full understanding of hardware design Sufficient experience of working with FPGAs and Xilinx-ISE development tools Basic knowledge of working with Linux environments References Mohammadreza Najafi, Mohammad Sadoghi, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, “Flexible query processor on FPGAs,” Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 6(12), 1310--1313, VLDB Endowment, 2013 Contact Mohammadreza Najafi Technical University Munich Department of Computer Science Application and Middleware Systems Research Group (I 13) Boltzmannstrasse 3 Room 01.06.060 85748 Garching, Germany Email: mohammadreza.najafi @in.tum.de