
Tag: Wes McKinney
Pandas on GPU Runs 150x Faster, Nvidia Says
Data scientists and others who work in pandas may be interested to hear about a new release of Nvidia’s RAPIDS cuDF framework that it says results in a 150x performance boost for pandas running atop a GPU. Pandas is Read more…
A Peek at the Future of the Open Data Architecture
Hadoop may have fizzled out as a data platform, but it laid the groundwork for an open data architecture that continues to grow and evolve today, largely in the cloud. We got a peek at the future of this open data archit Read more…
Voltron Data Takes Flight to Unify Arrow Community
You may know of Apache Arrow as the fast in-memory data format used to accelerate data analytics and data science workloads. What you may not know is that one of the original creators of Arrow and a core member of Nvidia Read more…
Apache Arrow Takes ‘Flight’ with Big Data Net
A data transport framework released by the Apache Arrow community aims to alleviate some of the pain associated with accessing large data sets over networks. Apache Arrow Flight is described as a general-purpose, clie Read more…
Inside OmniSci’s Plans for Data Analytics Convergence
You may know OmniSci as the provider of a fast SQL-based database that runs on GPUs. But the company formerly known as MapD is moving beyond its GPU roots and is building a data platform that runs on CPUs and does machin Read more…