I've heard about that Nvidia project. I think they are on the right track. The only thing that's missing is enough programmers (und thus software) for this mode

I've heard about that Nvidia project. I think they are on the right track. The only thing that's missing is enough programmers (und thus software) for this model. As an example (and I'm saying this as a layman in terms of databases) I think that DBMS might be able to profit a lot from the GPGPU based model. For high read traffic databases you could scale a system with n GPUs, based on how much "storage" the database needs (the storage being the GPU ram, continuously mirrored to harddisks when writes occur).