Re: Using the GPU

Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Billings, John" <John.Billings@PAETEC.com> writes:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> There has been some interesting research on sorting using the GPU which could
> be very interesting for databases.

Without knowing a thing about all of this, my first thought it might be 
useful for GIS and things of that sort.

regards,
Lukas