From: | gael(at)pilotsystems(dot)net ( Gaël Le Mignot) |
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To: | Eliot Gable <egable+pgsql-performance(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: GPU Accelerated Sorting |
Date: | 2010-08-30 14:56:15 |
Message-ID: | plop87y6boqhdc.fsf@aoskar.kilobug.org |
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Hello,
In my humble opinion, while it can sound interesting from a theorical
point of view to outloads some operations to the GPU, there is a huge
pratical problem in current world : databases which are big enough to
require such heavy optimization are usually runned on server hardware,
which very rarely have powerful GPU.
There may be a small target of computers having both GPU and heavy
database, but that sounds very exceptional to me, so investing effort
into it sounds a bit unjustified to me.
Except as a matter of scientific research, which is it of course
important for the future.
Regards,
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Gaël Le Mignot - gael(at)pilotsystems(dot)net
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