> From: James Law [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: GPGPU and Tomcat > > Would Tomcat see any benefits from implementing gpgpu support > in the way that the distributed project "Folding" has seen?
Tomcat is pure Java (except for the APR connector), so any such support would have to be in the JVM, not Tomcat itself. > I find GPGPU quite fascinating subject and for what I can understand > tomcat could potentially see benefits from having massive amounts of > parallel processing power available. Whether or not any particular application would benefit depends on the characteristics of that application. Frequently, webapps do relatively minor processing, with the brunt of the work being performed in a data base engine (usually running on a separate system). The exception is handling SOAP or similar protocols that require extensive (and expensive) parsing. Also, the server boxes Tomcat is typically run on in production environments tend to have very minimal GPUs, since they are not used directly by any GUI software. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
