Is GPU parsing possible?

Question

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There is a parser which processes millions of records. The drawdown is 80% for the processor. The rest I think so IO. Is it possible to process text information on the GPU. I would like to have several hundred or even thousands of cores.

Are similar tasks generally solved on the GPU?

Answer 1

Definitely possible.
For example: https://github.com/antonmks/nvParse

Answer 2

Start from here .

The drawdown goes to 80% for the processor

read data in large blocks and process in asynchronous multi-threaded mode.

Answer 3

First you need to find what exactly consumes the processor and find out if it lends itself to vectorization. GPU is not a magic wand, not everything can.

Answer 4

Very task dependent, probably not, because parsing processes data one-dimensionally and backtracks often. In addition, this is a task with low data locality, which means that a lot of time will be spent on transfers.
The GPU is fast when you need to grind a lot of data with a minimum of branches. Parsing is the opposite of this in terms of the structure of the algorithm.