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Rinka Singh commented on LUCENE-7745:
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A very quick update on this.  I have been progressing on the histogram and 
should take another month or so to put something out.  Basically.
 # It is a sorted histogram of words.
 # Like I said before, I can scale to the size of the device memory (I think 
1/6th the total free mem) for one card
 # Again, (:) hopefully) it should be straightforward to save the host memory 
location + the word to the stored data.

Thanks,

> Explore GPU acceleration
> ------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-7745
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7745
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Ishan Chattopadhyaya
>            Assignee: Ishan Chattopadhyaya
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: gsoc2017, mentor
>         Attachments: TermDisjunctionQuery.java, gpu-benchmarks.png
>
>
> There are parts of Lucene that can potentially be speeded up if computations 
> were to be offloaded from CPU to the GPU(s). With commodity GPUs having as 
> high as 12GB of high bandwidth RAM, we might be able to leverage GPUs to 
> speed parts of Lucene (indexing, search).
> First that comes to mind is spatial filtering, which is traditionally known 
> to be a good candidate for GPU based speedup (esp. when complex polygons are 
> involved). In the past, Mike McCandless has mentioned that "both initial 
> indexing and merging are CPU/IO intensive, but they are very amenable to 
> soaking up the hardware's concurrency."
> I'm opening this issue as an exploratory task, suitable for a GSoC project. I 
> volunteer to mentor any GSoC student willing to work on this this summer.



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