On 6/8/07, Billings, John <John.Billings@paetec.com> wrote:
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> Does anyone think that PostgreSQL could benefit from using the video card as a parallel computing device? I'm
workingon a project using Nvidia's CUDA with an 8800 series video card to handle non-graphical algorithms. I'm
curiousif anyone thinks that this technology could be used to speed up a database? If so which part of the database,
andwhat kind of parallel algorithms would be used?
You might want to look at:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ngm/15-823/project/Final.pdf
...haven't used it though...
Regards,
Dawid