Rob Clark wrote: > It would be great to use the GPU for ZFS or to offload some of the OS load ... > http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nexus.html > > If SunStudio had some GPU support and there were a few functions added for > the hotpoints ... > Forgive if I'm mistaken, but I don't think the CPU is the bottleneck when it comes to ZFS. Secondly, and more importantly for SS to generate PTX would probably be quite an effort not to mention the porting of various other bits that go along with it. (Also if Sun isn't using the EDG front-end they'd have to license quite a bit more code from NVIDIA) This isn't to say that effort or something similar hasn't already started or that an alternative vendor *cough* PathScale isn't planning to roll out something like this, but the market is still early for GPU to bring out all the players.
./C CTO PathScale
