Re: Using the power of the GPU

From: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Using the power of the GPU
Date: 2007-06-08 19:46:02
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On Jun 8, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Guy Rouillier wrote:

> Well, I'm not one of the developers, and one of them may have this
> particular scratch, but in my opinion just about any available fish
> has to be bigger than this one. Until someone comes out with a
> standardized approach for utilizing whatever extra processing power
> exists on a GPU in a generic fashion, I can't see much payback for
> writing special code for the NVIDIA 8800.

And I can state unequivocally that none of my high-end DB serves will
every have such a high-end graphics card in it... so what's the point?

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