I think it would be really cool to integrate a GPU into a database to speed up certain operations if an optimizer can decide that certain parts of a query will benefit from it. The thrust docs [0] indicate that the C++ gpu library can be used effectively for sorting, I wonder if sorts on non-indexed fields can be sped up by attaching a GPU to my database!
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I think it would be really cool to integrate a GPU into a database to speed up certain operations if an optimizer can decide that certain parts of a query will benefit from it. The thrust docs [0] indicate that the C++ gpu library can be used effectively for sorting, I wonder if sorts on non-indexed fields can be sped up by attaching a GPU to my database!
[0] http://thrust.github.io/