Re: Using the power of the GPU

[Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Billings, John wrote:
> Does anyone think that PostgreSQL could benefit from using the video 
> card as a parallel computing device?

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.

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Guy Rouillier