"Another scenario that surprised Kirk was when a development team
recently tried to use a GeForce FX CPU to perform database key sorting.
When coded to take advantage of the parallelism and pipelining in the
GPU, parallel key sorts and searches can occur much faster than using
general CPUs, on the order of 4-5x faster than the Pentium 4, according
to Kirk. "

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1091423,00.asp

Interesting article on the state of current GPUs and the future.

-Gel

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