OpenCL 2.1 will be a c++ subset
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9039/khronos-announces-opencl-21-c-comes-to-opencl
I have cuda on my workstation (gtx 760) also i have a laptop with cuda gt
also you can use it in amazone ec2
https://aws.amazon.com/articles/7249489223918169
but if you really want you can build your own devbox monster
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/03/17/digits-devbox/
https://developer.nvidia.com/devbox
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Leyne, Sean <s...@broadviewsoftware.com>
wrote:
> Marius,
>
> > I wonder how we can use the power of cuda in the engine
> >
> > http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/power-cpp11-cuda-7/#more-4999
>
> I don't think we should focus on CUDA specifically but on parallel
> processing.
>
> There are a variety of technologies (OpenCL, OpenMP perhaps even OpenMPI)
> which provide parallelism
>
> Personally, I have been thinking about how the engines current
> sorting/grouping logic could be modified to enable parallel execution. IMO
> there are system CPU resources which could be used to improve overall
> engine performance.
>
> Consider the Intel Xeon PHI (Knights Corner) coprocessor which can provide
> 60 "cpus" of processing via high-speed interconnect, all via OpenMPI, these
> could be used to perform the sorting/grouping while query threads reads the
> rows and build the sort buffers.
>
> The next version of the PHI (Knights Landing) will provide true
> independent functionality of each of "cpus" (
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypvV-qLJMAs&feature=youtu.be&t=15m24s)
>
>
> Sean
>
>
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