Subham,
I would start with reviewing Prof Mike Stonebrakers and Dr Paula
Hawthorns paper http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=582095.582097
you can also look at Perftrack
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.101.7063&rep=rep1&type=pdf
regards
3dmashUp
Yes!
Probably very much so. There is good evidence that using multiple CPU's and
GPU's will
speed sorting and many other database operations too.
See
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/ngm/15-823/project/Final.pdf
The question become how practical is it? There are numerous iss
Thom Brown-2 wrote:
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> On 15 November 2010 11:26, Greg Stark wrote:
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>> I keep wondering if there's a role for GPUs in Postgres and haven't
>> figure out how to integrate them yet but the day when we'll be
>> expected to exploit them seems to be getting nearer:
>>
>>
>> http://aws.typepad.co
