Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-tomcat-users-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 5094 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2008 16:58:01 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 27 Nov 2008 16:58:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 25349 invoked by uid 500); 27 Nov 2008 16:58:01 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-tomcat-users-archive@tomcat.apache.org Received: (qmail 25328 invoked by uid 500); 27 Nov 2008 16:58:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@tomcat.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list users@tomcat.apache.org Received: (qmail 25317 invoked by uid 99); 27 Nov 2008 16:58:01 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:58:01 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [87.194.9.65] (HELO mail.melandra.com) (87.194.9.65) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:56:34 +0000 Received: from puma.melandra.net ([10.0.0.251]) by puma.melandra.net ([10.0.0.251]) with mapi; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:56:57 +0000 From: Peter Crowther To: 'Tomcat Users List' Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:56:56 +0000 Subject: RE: GPGPU and Tomcat Thread-Topic: GPGPU and Tomcat Thread-Index: AclQePKQ4cl10n6hRsKq9dQcpzhosQALgmgwAAH/5ZA= Message-ID: <6715CF65287F8F408DA109EC03AC6C0D845D92FB04@puma.melandra.net> References: <0AAE5AB84B013E45A7B61CB66943C17215A3D846D2@USEA-EXCH7.na.uis.unisys.com> In-Reply-To: <0AAE5AB84B013E45A7B61CB66943C17215A3D846D2@USEA-EXCH7.na.uis.unisys.com> Accept-Language: en-US, en-GB Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US, en-GB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org > From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:Chuck.Caldarale@unisys.com] > Frequently, webapps do relatively minor processing, with the > brunt of the work being performed in a data base engine > (usually running on a separate system). To me, the database is one of the more interesting places to use GPUs. Hal= f a gigabyte of very fast RAM and some high speed simple processors is a go= od place to put some critical data that you want to search. Because of the= architecture of a typical GPU, it seems unlikely that it's the best place = to process complex threaded code, even if (say) the JVM could make use of i= t. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@tomcat.apache.org