From: | Lukas Kahwe Smith <smith(at)pooteeweet(dot)org> |
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To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Using the GPU |
Date: | 2007-06-09 12:11:42 |
Message-ID: | 466A98FE.1060505@pooteeweet.org |
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Billings, John" <John(dot)Billings(at)PAETEC(dot)com> writes:
>
>> Does anyone think that PostgreSQL could benefit from using the video
>> card as a parallel computing device? I'm working on a project using
>> Nvidia's CUDA with an 8800 series video card to handle non-graphical
>> algorithms. I'm curious if anyone thinks that this technology could be
>> used to speed up a database? If so which part of the database, and what
>> kind of parallel algorithms would be used?
>
> There has been some interesting research on sorting using the GPU which could
> be very interesting for databases.
Without knowing a thing about all of this, my first thought it might be
useful for GIS and things of that sort.
regards,
Lukas
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