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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