Re: Using the GPU

Billings, John wrote:
> 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?
>

Looking at nvidia's cuda homepage
(http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html), I see that the parallel
bitonic sorting could be used instead of qsort/heapsort/mergesort (I
don't know which is used)

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Alejandro Torras