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hippich
on April 23, 2013
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Postgres on the GPU
GPU is good at calculating stuff (nVidia in particular at calculating floats.) I do not see reasons to do text stuff with GPU
qb45
on April 24, 2013
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GPUs had been used for some kind of fuzzy string matching [1] and worked well thanks to their huge memory bandwidth.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorith...
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