Re: Using the GPU - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dawid Kuroczko
Subject Re: Using the GPU
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Msg-id 758d5e7f0706081547q2f7a1df6r39afb1b7d06b6725@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Using the GPU  ("Billings, John" <John.Billings@PAETEC.com>)
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On 6/8/07, Billings, John <John.Billings@paetec.com> wrote:
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> Does anyone think  that PostgreSQL could benefit from using the video card as a parallel computing  device?  I'm
workingon a project using Nvidia's CUDA with an 8800 series  video card to handle non-graphical algorithms.  I'm
curiousif anyone  thinks that this technology could be used to speed up a database?  If so  which part of the database,
andwhat kind of parallel algorithms would be  used? 

You might want to look at:

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ngm/15-823/project/Final.pdf

...haven't used it though...

   Regards,
       Dawid

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