Re: Using the power of the GPU - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: Using the power of the GPU
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In response to Re: Using the power of the GPU  (Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1@burntmail.com>)
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On Jun 8, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Guy Rouillier wrote:

> Well, I'm not one of the developers, and one of them may have this
> particular scratch, but in my opinion just about any available fish
> has to be bigger than this one.  Until someone comes out with a
> standardized approach for utilizing whatever extra processing power
> exists on a GPU in a generic fashion, I can't see much payback for
> writing special code for the NVIDIA 8800.

And I can state unequivocally that none of my high-end DB serves will
every have such a high-end graphics card in it... so what's the point?


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