From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pieter De Wit Subject: Using Video cards (CUDA) for RAID parity Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 23:27:59 +1300 Message-ID: <52A98FAF.4000205@insync.za.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi List, Given the recent work done with techs like CUDA etc. - has the idea been floated to use the video card for RAID parity calculations vs the CPU ? Bitcoin and plenty others have shown the true speed of these cards. This might be a cheaper version of a RAID card. Cheers, Pieter