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 > > > > -- > Steve Robenalt > Software Architect > sroben...@highwire.org <mailto:bza...@highwire.org> > (office/cell): 916-505-1785 > > HighWire Press, Inc. > 425 Broadway St, Redwood City, CA 94063 > www.highwire.org <http://www.highwire.org/> > > Technology for Scholarly Communication