Not sure if anyone else saw this, but it struck me as an interesting
idea if it could be added to PostgreSQL. GPU accelerated database
operations could be very... interesting. Of course, this could be
difficult to do in a way that usefully increases performance of
PostgreSQL, but I'll leave that up to you guys to figure out.
http://code.google.com/p/back40computing/wiki/RadixSorting
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