GPU-Based Acceleration For PostgreSQL

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 23 December 2014 at 08:46 AM EST. 16 Comments
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A developer has modified the PostgreSQL database software so that it can exploit GPGPU computing for faster performance.

Kobei KaiGai, a software architect at NEC, has been working on GPGPU acceleration for PostgreSQL going back to 2011. Originally he was using a CUDA-based approach but he's shifted now to using the vendor-neutral OpenCL. His implementation supports many PostgreSQL functions and data types. The implementation can also perform full-table scans, hash joins, and pre-process of aggregation all with GPUs.

This project to yield GPU acceleration with PostgreSQL is called PG-Storm. Going in the future there is a desire to expose more logics and functions on the GPU implementation.

PG-Strom is open-source and is hosted on GitHub. Those wishing to learn more about this GPGPU support for PostgreSQL can also see the PG-Strom slides embedded below.

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