From: James Law [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GPGPU and Tomcat
Would Tomcat see any benefits from implementing gpgpu support
in the way that the distributed project Folding has seen?
Tomcat is pure Java (except for the APR connector), so any such support would
have to be in the JVM, not Tomcat itself.
I find GPGPU quite fascinating subject and for what I can understand
tomcat could potentially see benefits from having massive amounts of
parallel processing power available.
Whether or not any particular application would benefit depends on the
characteristics of that application. Frequently, webapps do relatively minor
processing, with the brunt of the work being performed in a data base engine
(usually running on a separate system). The exception is handling SOAP or
similar protocols that require extensive (and expensive) parsing.
Also, the server boxes Tomcat is typically run on in production environments
tend to have very minimal GPUs, since they are not used directly by any GUI
software.
- Chuck
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