Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge the following support for this project:

The CSE department, HKUST: Equipment, Lab, and PGS (Post-Graduate Student) support (Aug 2002 - present).
The School of Engineering, HKUST: A startup equipment fund (HK$198K, Jun 2003 - Jun 2004) for new faculty.
Research Equipment Fund, HKUST: 2005-06, 2007-08, 2009-10.
AoE (Area of Excellence), HKUST: AoE/E-01/99 (Sept 2004 - Jun 2008). Completed.
Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC):
- GRF (General Research Funding), formerly known as CERG:
  616012 (Jan 2013 - Dec 2015): Accelerating Genomic Data Analysis with Graphics Processors.
  617509 (Parallel Data Mining on Graphics Processors). HK$675,074. Jun 2010 - May 2013.
  616808 (Relational query co-processing on graphics processors). Co-I Pedro V. Sander. HK$572,614. Jan 2009 - Jun 2011.
- CERG (Competitive Earmarked Research Grant) grants:
  617307 (Scheduling and routing for query processing in sensor networks). HK$696,000. Jan 2008 - June 2010.
  617206 (Cache-oblivious relational query processing). HK$356,000. Sept 2006 - Feb 2009 (Completed).
  HKUST6263/04E (Action-Oriented Pervasive Query Processing). HK$339,414. Jan 2005 - Jun 2007 (Completed).
  HKUST6158/03E (Proxy Caching for Database-Backed Web Sites). HK$377,149. Sept 2003 - Aug 2006 (Completed).
- DAG (Direct Allocation Grant) grants:
  DAG02/03.EG03 (Distributed Indexing for the Hidden Web). HK$100K. Feb 2003 - Jan 2005 (Completed).
  DAG05/06.EG11 (Cache-Conscious Automata for XML Filtering). HK$70,125. Jan 2006 - Jun 2008 (Completed).
Innovation and Technology Commission (ITF): Guangdong-Hong Kong Technology Cooperation Funding Scheme (TCFS) GHP/045/05 (Mar 2007 - Apr 2008). Scalable IP-TV and interative-movie platforms for ubiquitous multimedia streaming. HK$7 million. PI: Gary Chan. Completed.
Microsoft Research Asia: An Embedded Systems CFP (Call-For-Proposal) grant MCCL03/04.EG01 (WinyDB: An Embedded Query Processor for Sensor Networks, HK$156K, May 2004 - Aug 2009). Co-I: Lionel M. Ni. Completed.
Microsoft SQLServer China R&D: Interactive Data Cube Computation on Graphics Processors (MRA08/09.EG04). HK$156,000. Mar 2009 - Dec 2012.
Microsoft SQLServer China R&D: Supporting e-science applications on heterogeneous clusters (MRA11EG01). HK$154,000. Sept 2010 - Aug 2013.

We appreciate your comments and suggestions about any aspect of our project. Please feel free to contact our team members by email with a subject line "Catalac Project". Our contact information are available in the homepages of individual project members.