Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention
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Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention
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Re: Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention
#2He is not the first person to try to implement a GPU base database, and this is not a trivial undertaking by any means.
http://gpgpu.org/tag/databases
Does anybody know any source with more details on this work?
Re: Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention
#3The claim of a 700,000x speedup makes me suspicious of pretty much everything else about the work.
Re: Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention
#4The claim of a 700,000x speedup makes me suspicious of pretty much everything else about the work.
It says 70?
Re: Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention
#5The claim of a 700,000x speedup makes me suspicious of pretty much everything else about the work.
Not me. PostGIS has done an amazing job given its constraints, but it is pretty obvious that there are better ways to do certain operations. Its not that I believe him...its just that I think its possible enough for the claim to not be unbelievable.
Re: Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention
#6The claim of a 700,000x speedup makes me suspicious of pretty much everything else about the work.
It says 70?
“The speed ups over PostGIS … I’m not an expert, and I’m sure I could have been more efficient in setting up the system in the first place, but it was 700,000 times faster,” Mostak said. “Something that would take 40 days was done in less than a second.”
Re: Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention
#7The claim of a 700,000x speedup makes me suspicious of pretty much everything else about the work.
It says 70?
And, later: "“The speed ups over PostGIS … I’m not an expert, and I’m sure I could have been more efficient in setting up the system in the first place, but it was 700,000 times faster,” Mostak said. “Something that would take 40 days was done in less than a second.”"
Re: Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention
#8The claim of a 700,000x speedup makes me suspicious of pretty much everything else about the work.
Not me. PostGIS has done an amazing job given its constraints, but it is pretty obvious that there are better ways to do certain operations. Its not that I believe him...its just that I think its possible enough for the claim to not be unbelievable.
So his comment is more along the lines of, "I was using a screwdriver to pound in this nail and it was taking forever, but then I started using a hammer and man...it went fast!"
Re: Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not me. PostGIS has done an amazing job given its constraints, but it is pretty obvious that there are better ways to do certain operations. Its not that I believe him...its just that I think its possible enough for the claim to not be unbelievable.
So his comment is more along the lines of, "I was using a screwdriver to pound in this nail and it was taking forever, but then I started using a hammer and man...it went fast!"
Yes...that is how I see it.
Re: Fast Database Emerges from MIT Class, GPUs and Student’s Invention
#10Slides from the Conference where he won the prize:
https://cga-download.hmdc.harvard.edu/publish_web/Annual_Spr...
Didn't see a link to a published thesis.