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What cache tasks are possible on GPUs? Maybe computing a hash, but that doesn’t seem like a big problem.
by sudhirj 7y ago
What cache tasks are possible on GPUs? Maybe computing a hash, but that doesn’t seem like a big problem.
- zoonosis 7y agoI think the question about caching was separate from the question about GPUs. I don't think it was meant to imply GPUs for caching.
- wmf 7y agoI could imagine CloudFlare using GPUs for image optimization or video encoding. They do a lot more than caching these days.
- elithrar 7y agoNeither is “great” on a GPU: • Image optimization is still mostly software: JPEG, PNG, WebP. GPUs do not bring much to the table here at all, and consume a lot of power, which is likely to upset the hosting ISP of that cache node. • Video encoding is better, but still average. NVENC (Nvidia’s encode Engine) has some quality challenges and limitations. Further, doing this at the edge makes less sense: if you have to fetch the source material from the origin, do the heavy lifting centrally and store the results at the edge. Storing 4-5 renditions is cheap compared to GPU running costs here.