2008/1/30 Dann Corbit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 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
Someone at CMU has tried this, somewhat fruitfully. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ngm/15-823/project/Draft.pdf http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ngm/15-823/project/Final.pdf This was based on GPUSort: http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/GPUSORT/ Unfortunately, the licensing of GPUSort is, if anything, more awful than that for CUDA. http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/GPUSORT/terms.html This would need to get pretty totally reimplemented to be useful with PostgreSQL. Happily, we actually have some evidence that the exercise would be of some value. Further, it looks to me like the implementation that was done was done in a pretty naive way. Something done more seriously would likely be radically better... -- http://linuxfinances.info/info/linuxdistributions.html "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." -- assortedly attributed to Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Rita Mae Brown, and Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
