Pushing Database Scalability Up And Out With GPUs

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Timothy Prickett Morgan great article about getting max juice from your database for machine learning using graphics processing unit (GPU).

GPUs has become go-to accelerator for databases to get performance and scale boost. GPUs are used to execute the parallel functions of SQL queries to massively speed up the processing of queries against databases.

Article is about GPUdb database (used by US federal government) and its commercial version Kinetica developed by company of the same name. Commercial version was tested with US POstal Service and helped the organization drive 70 million fewer miles than it did in 2015 and save 7 million gallons of fuel.

Interesting reading about data lake size (200,000 devices are streaming data into this cluster once every minute) and also query performance compared to SAP HANA.

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