Parallel Range Query Processing with R-tree on Multi-GPUs

Hongsu Ryu, Mincheol Kim, Wonik Choi

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Ever since the R-tree was proposed to index multi-dimensional data, many efforts have been made to improve its query performances. One common trend to improve query performance is to parallelize query processing with the use of multi-core architectures. To this end, a GPU-base R-tree has been recently proposed. However, even though a GPU-based R-tree can exhibit an improvement in query performance, it is limited in its ability to handle large volumes of data because GPUs have limited physical memory. To address this problem, we propose MGR-tree (Multi-GPU R-tree), which can manage large volumes of data by dividing nodes into multiple GPUs. Our experiments show that MGR-tree is up to 9.1 times faster than a sequential search on a GPU and up to 1.6 times faster than a conventional GPU-based R-tree.