SFPUG March: Parallel Postgres with KaiGai

Who: KaiGai Kohei of NEC Tokyo, lead author of SEPostgres, Row Level Security, and pg_strom.

What: pg_strom (https://github.com/kaigai/pg_strom), for parallel PostgreSQL workloads on GPUs

When: Wednesday, March 18th, 7pm

Host and food sponsor: Tilt (http://tilt.com), your place for crowdfunding.

PG-Strom is GPU acceleration technology that off-loads a part of CPU intensive workloads to GPGPU; This module is constructed on top of custom-scan/join interface, and it now supports full-scan, hash-join, aggregation and sorting. Nested-loop shall be the next challenge. In rough benchmarks, PG-Strom accelerate query response time several times faster than the vanilla PostgreSQL. (In an extreme case, 30 times faster!) The speaker will introduce characteristics of GPU and how is it integrated with PostgreSQL via custom-scan/join interface.

And yes, you can ask KaiGai questions about Row Level Security during the Q&A.