[postgis-users] Low importance question.... using video cards

[Paul Ramsey]

I have talked to a few folks who have done experiments with this
approach, and the consensus so far is that it adds a lot of
complexity, that the promises of hardware-independence from tools like
OpenCLI are not truly being met, and that the performance boosts are
not as big as one might hope/wish. So, currently shelved and waiting
for a new era: I would say having a reliable GPU abstraction library
for multi-vendor support is a bar which must be met before spending
any serious effort on the work.

P.

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Maxime Poulin <mpoulin at expedia.com> wrote:
> Hi all, was simply wondering. Could it be possible that in the future, PostGIS take advantage of available hardware like video-cards to perform geo calculations ? I mean, representing a few thousand polygons and performing spatial calculations is something nVidia or ATI are doing pretty well.
>
> Plus, for all of us who were gamers and who now have teens are already paying for all of this "science" :)
>
> Max.
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