Re: Is offloading to GPU a worthwhile feature?

2018-04-11 Thread Jakub Narebski
Konstantin Ryabitsev writes: > On 04/08/18 09:59, Jakub Narebski wrote: >>> This is an entirely idle pondering kind of question, but I wanted to >>> ask. I recently discovered that some edge providers are starting to >>> offer systems with GPU cards in them --

Re: Is offloading to GPU a worthwhile feature?

2018-04-09 Thread Konstantin Ryabitsev
On 04/08/18 09:59, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> This is an entirely idle pondering kind of question, but I wanted to >> ask. I recently discovered that some edge providers are starting to >> offer systems with GPU cards in them -- primarily for clients that need >> to provide streaming video content,

Re: Is offloading to GPU a worthwhile feature?

2018-04-08 Thread Jakub Narebski
Hello, Konstantin Ryabitsev writes: > This is an entirely idle pondering kind of question, but I wanted to > ask. I recently discovered that some edge providers are starting to > offer systems with GPU cards in them -- primarily for clients that need > to provide

Re: Is offloading to GPU a worthwhile feature?

2018-02-27 Thread Stefan Beller
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > compression offload Currently there is a series under review that introduces a commit graph file[1], which would allow to not need decompressing objects for a rev walk, but have the walking

Is offloading to GPU a worthwhile feature?

2018-02-27 Thread Konstantin Ryabitsev
Hi, all: This is an entirely idle pondering kind of question, but I wanted to ask. I recently discovered that some edge providers are starting to offer systems with GPU cards in them -- primarily for clients that need to provide streaming video content, I guess. As someone who needs to run a