On 05/28/2016 03:33 PM, Kouhei Kaigai wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Joe Conway [mailto:m...@joeconway.com] >> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2016 1:40 AM >> To: Kaigai Kouhei(海外 浩平); Jim Nasby; Ants Aasma; Simon Riggs >> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org >> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Does people favor to have matrix data type? >> >> On 05/28/2016 07:12 AM, Kouhei Kaigai wrote: >>> Sparse matrix! It is a disadvantaged area for the current array format. >>> >>> I have two ideas. HPC folks often split a large matrix into multiple >>> grid. A grid is typically up to 1024x1024 matrix, for example. >>> If a grid is consists of all zero elements, it is obvious we don't need >>> to have individual elements on the grid. >>> One other idea is compression. If most of matrix is zero, it is an ideal >>> data for compression, and it is easy to reconstruct only when calculation. >>> >>>> Related to this, Tom has mentioned in the past that perhaps we should >>>> support abstract use of the [] construct. Currently point finds a way to >>>> make use of [], but I think that's actually coded into the grammar. >>>> >>> Yep, if we consider 2D-array is matrix, no special enhancement is needed >>> to use []. However, I'm inclined to have own data structure for matrix >>> to present the sparse matrix. >> >> +1 I'm sure this would be useful for PL/R as well. >> >> Joe >> > It is pretty good idea to combine PL/R and PL/CUDA (what I'm now working) > for advanced analytics. We will be able to off-load heavy computing portion > to GPU, then also utilize various R functions inside database.
Agreed. Perhaps at some point we should discuss closer integration of some sort, or at least a sample use case. -- Crunchy Data - http://crunchydata.com PostgreSQL Support for Secure Enterprises Consulting, Training, & Open Source Development
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