On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, 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
Let us know when you have a demo ready. :-) > If SunStudio had some GPU support and there were a few functions > added for the hotpoints ... GPUs are great for some things but it is difficult to imagine a GPU being of assistance in the zfs implementation due to way too much latency, optimization for floating point rather than integer, and due to creating a "hotpoint". For zfs it is much better to spread the load across multiple CPU cores using many threads as is done now. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
