Aren’t most databases constrained by I/O? And postgresql by how fast your kernel can switch between processes under a concurrent load?
From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Billings, John Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 10:55 AM To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: [HACKERS] Using the GPU
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?