HiPEAC 2025 Paper Talk - SPIRIT: Scalable and Persistent In-Memory Indices for Real-Time Search

This research was conducted at the Australian National University.
Link to the paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3703351
Artifact link to be added soon.

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Credits and Acknowledgements
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Thanks to Shoaib Akram for all of his guidance and help during this exciting debut project.

Special thanks to Angus Atkinson for developing the original prototype of SPIRIT, Chethin Weekarody for developing the query cache, and Anthony Gambale.

Thanks to the team at ACM TACO for helping this paper see the light of day, and HiPEAC 2025 for inviting us to present it.

The overlay, as well as the thumbnail, includes a photo of Mare Nostrum 4 as can be found on Wikipedia. Video footage was taken by Abul Hasnat, while editing was done by me.