It does not really have to be a platform independent thing. It can be a configurable switch where the user who has a particular h/w should be able use that switch and take advantage of the perf boost.
But, we should be able to demonstrate some significant improvement using NVIDIA GPUs On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > Thanks for the information about the CUDA project!**** > > ** ** > > I think the main reason why you have not heard anything about > Lucene/Solr/ElasticSearch working together with GPUs is mainly the fact, > that Apache Lucene and all search servers on top of Lucene (Apache Solr, > ElasticSearch) are pure Java applications, highly optimized to run in the > Oracle virtual machine. Currently there is no official support for GPUs > from Java APIs, you can only use proprietary wrapper libraries to make use > of CUDA (e.g. http://www.jcuda.org/).**** > > ** ** > > It would be great, if there would be a platform independent way (directly > in the official Java API) to execute jobs on GPUs. **** > > ** ** > > It might be worth a try to maybe implement the Lucene block codecs (the > abstraction of the underlying posting list formats) using a GPU. Because > this is encapsulated in a public API, it could be a separate project, using > the JNI-based CUDA wrappers to encode/decode PFOR postings lists. The query > execution logic is harder to port, because there is a lot of abstraction > included (posting lists are doc-id iterators), which would need to be short > circuited.**** > > ** ** > > Uwe**** > > ** ** > > -----**** > > Uwe Schindler**** > > H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen**** > > http://www.thetaphi.de**** > > eMail: u...@thetaphi.de**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Yanning Li [mailto:yanni...@nvidia.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 09, 2013 11:02 PM > *To:* dev@lucene.apache.org > *Subject:* Anyone interested about using GPU to improve the performance > of Lucene?**** > > ** ** > > Hi all,**** > > ** ** > > I work for NVIDIA Tesla Accelerating Computing Group. Recently we are > noticed that GPU can really accelerate the performance of search engines. > There are proof points not only from Google, but also from others, such as > Yandex, Baidu, Bing, etc. But not much around Solr/Lucene. **** > > ** ** > > So we are trying to engage with Lucene developers more actively.**** > > **1) **If possible we could like to hear from your perspective, are > there some opportunities for GPU in Lucene/Solr?**** > > **2) **Wondering is anyone interested to use GPU to accelerate the > performance of Lucene/Solr? If so please feel free to let me know, we can > send out free GPUs to get project started. **** > > ** ** > > Attached a paper talking about using GPU to accelerate index compression > in case you have interests. **** > > ** ** > > Looking forward to hear from some of you,**** > > ** ** > > Best**** > > ** ** > > Yanning**** > ------------------------------ > > This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and > may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, > disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies > of the original message. **** > ------------------------------ > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul
