On 6/8/07, Billings, John <John.Billings@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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?
Absolutely.
If so which part of the database, and what kind of parallel algorithms would be used?
GPUs are parallel vector processing pipelines, which as far as I can tell do not lend themselves right away to the data structures that PostgreSQL uses; they're optimized for processing high volumes of homogenously typed values in sequence.
