Re: CUDA Sorting - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gaetano Mendola
Subject Re: CUDA Sorting
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Msg-id CAJycT5pq14eLpk+A1TZKOdUB2S71+c78g6sxQLuDxJzp5wT1ig@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: CUDA Sorting  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
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<p><br /> On Feb 13, 2012 7:49 p.m., "Greg Stark" <<a href="mailto:stark@mit.edu">stark@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br />
><br/> > I don't think we should be looking at either CUDA or OpenCL directly.<br /> > We should be looking
fora generic library that can target either and<br /> > is well maintained and actively developed. Any GPU code we
write<br/> > ourselves would rapidly be overtaken by changes in the hardware and<br /> > innovations in parallel
algorithms.If we find a library that provides<br /> > a sorting api and adapt our code to use it then we'll get the
benefits<br/> > of any new hardware feature as the library adds support for them.<p>To sort integer I used the
ThrustNvidia library. 

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