On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 22:12 -0800, Dann Corbit wrote: > http://www.scientificcomputing.com/ShowPR~PUBCODE~030~ACCT~3000000100~ISSUE~0801~RELTYPE~HPCC~PRODCODE~00000000~PRODLETT~C.html > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn.html > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html >
I assume you mean to have interesting CPU-intensive tasks offloaded to the GPU, rather than full-porting... I looked into this and it seems like an innovative plan technically, but most servers running PostgreSQL don't have a GPU. So it makes it more a personal computer opportunity rather than a business server one, no? Plus I wouldn't look at it ahead of a debugger being available. If you wrote a CUDA function to perform a useful operation that might be a good starting place to general understanding of how we might use this in the future. PostgreSQL is extensible, so an add-in function might be a useful module on pgfoundry. Maybe we could build in a hook to allow an external-function library to provide sort capability... but I don't think anyone is going to take it seriously for database core without a greater than normal amount of test results and prototypes. -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
