Re: [HACKERS] GPUSort project

2006-04-13 Thread Benny Amorsen
MvO == Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: MvO Is this of practical use for run-of-the-mill video cards? -- The article suggests that using the GPU is a win even on a $100 64MB card. The built-in card in most servers is probably not worth bothering with, but many servers offer PCI

Re: [HACKERS] GPUSort project

2006-04-13 Thread mark
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:31:52AM +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote: MvO == Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: MvO Is this of practical use for run-of-the-mill video cards? -- The article suggests that using the GPU is a win even on a $100 64MB card. The built-in card in most servers

Re: [HACKERS] GPUSort project

2006-04-12 Thread Mischa Sandberg
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:02:07PM -0700, Mischa Sandberg wrote: Anybody on this list hear/opine anything pf the GPUSort project for postgresql? I'm working on a radix-sort subcase for tuplesort, and there are similarities.

Re: [HACKERS] GPUSort project

2006-04-12 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 10:00 -0700, Mischa Sandberg wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:02:07PM -0700, Mischa Sandberg wrote: Anybody on this list hear/opine anything pf the GPUSort project for postgresql? I'm working on a radix-sort subcase for tuplesort, and

Re: [HACKERS] GPUSort project

2006-04-12 Thread Mischa Sandberg
[short] This probably would be an uneasy fit into generic backend code. Was hoping the GPUSort project might have fleeced/sorted out some issues. [long] Simon Riggs wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 10:00 -0700, Mischa Sandberg wrote: ... Long answer: we're shipping a server (appliance) product

[HACKERS] GPUSort project

2006-04-11 Thread Mischa Sandberg
Anybody on this list hear/opine anything pf the GPUSort project for postgresql? I'm working on a radix-sort subcase for tuplesort, and there are similarities. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ngm/15-823/project/ -- Engineers think that equations approximate reality. Physicists think that reality

Re: [HACKERS] GPUSort project

2006-04-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:02:07PM -0700, Mischa Sandberg wrote: Anybody on this list hear/opine anything pf the GPUSort project for postgresql? I'm working on a radix-sort subcase for tuplesort, and there are similarities. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ngm/15-823/project/ I've heard it