good evening;

> On 2015-12-01, at 21:17, Steve Robenalt <sroben...@highwire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tony,
> 
> Somebody will likely prove me wrong on this (and I'd love to see it), but I'm 
> skeptical that there is much intersection between the set of things a GPU is 
> good at and the set of things a database needs to do.

of course the context varies, but there are some demonstrated advantages:

    https://www.blazegraph.com/product/gpu-accelerated/ 
<https://www.blazegraph.com/product/gpu-accelerated/>

> As such, I don't expect there'd be much performance gain unless a way to 
> exploit the massive parallelism of the GPU effectively can be found.
> 
> Of course, GPU-driven analytics on the contents of the database opens up all 
> kinds of possibilities given the right kind of data...
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Tony Anecito <adanec...@yahoo.com 
> <mailto:adanec...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Can Cassandra use GPU's? If not can someone recommend a open source database 
> that runs on GPU's? I am interested in seeing the performance difference of a 
> database that is under 2GB run on a GPU card such as as NVIDA gtx 980.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Tony
> 
> 
> 
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