Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB478633F94 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:21:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58837-10 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from news.hub.org (news.hub.org [200.46.204.72]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 292346344D9 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:21:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from news.hub.org (news.hub.org [200.46.204.72]) by news.hub.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7UMLSqr005259 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:21:28 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from news@news.hub.org) Received: (from news@localhost) by news.hub.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o7UM81iS095415 for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:08:01 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from news) From: Chris Browne X-Newsgroups: pgsql.performance Subject: Re: GPU Accelerated Sorting Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:18:06 -0400 Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Lines: 12 Message-ID: <87fwxviyup.fsf@cbbrowne.afilias-int.info> References: <4C7C18CD.8030905@boreham.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:n9RBVf0ShkaVyrc3ShMS4RD35K8= To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.79 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.8, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201008/341 X-Sequence-Number: 40184 david_list@boreham.org (David Boreham) writes: > Feels like I fell through a worm hole in space/time, back to inmos in > 1987, and a guy from marketing has just > walked in the office going on about there's a customer who wants to > use our massively parallel hardware to speed up databases... ... As long as you're willing to rewrite PostgreSQL in Occam 2... -- http://projects.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/tock/trac/ The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown