| From: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Alexander Staubo" <alex(at)purefiction(dot)net>, "Tom Allison" <tom(at)tacocat(dot)net>, "Alban Hertroys" <alban(at)magproductions(dot)nl>, "Billings, John" <John(dot)Billings(at)paetec(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Using the GPU |
| Date: | 2007-06-16 15:54:59 |
| Message-ID: | 87zm2zopws.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com |
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"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> So you can't just claim that using a GPU might be interesting; you have to
> persuade people that it's more interesting than other places where we could
> spend our performance-improvement efforts.
I have a feeling something as sexy as that could attract new developers
though.
I think the hard part here is coming up with an abstract enough interface that
it doesn't tie Postgres to a particular implementation. I would want to see a
library that provided primitives that Postgres could use. Then that library
could have drivers for GPUs, or perhaps also for various other kinds of
coprocessors available in high end hardware.
I wonder if it exists already though.
--
Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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