| From: | Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp> |
| Subject: | Re: CUDA Sorting |
| Date: | 2012-02-13 22:51:11 |
| Message-ID: | CAJycT5pq14eLpk+A1TZKOdUB2S71+c78g6sxQLuDxJzp5wT1ig@mail.gmail.com |
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On Feb 13, 2012 7:49 p.m., "Greg Stark" <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
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> I don't think we should be looking at either CUDA or OpenCL directly.
> We should be looking for a generic library that can target either and
> is well maintained and actively developed. Any GPU code we write
> ourselves would rapidly be overtaken by changes in the hardware and
> innovations in parallel algorithms. If we find a library that provides
> a sorting api and adapt our code to use it then we'll get the benefits
> of any new hardware feature as the library adds support for them.
To sort integer I used the Thrust Nvidia library.
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