[Info-vax] Some of what I'm reading...

[IanD]

There's so much good material in these posts, it's taking me a while to look at most of it

I just read the article regarding gpus and SQL, interesting and even more interesting how it outpaced Spark, although some of the comments made are saying the time scale used makes the speedup look better than it is, even so, pretty interesting to use gpus for SQL execution and to outpace Spark

The take away for me is that gpus cannot be ignored going forward, they are pivotal in anything machine learning related and applications lacking a machine learning component are starting to look a little tired, especially as we move into stream based learning models and workloads. Now SQL execution may start levering them

I went to an internal talk the other day and they were showing a continual modeling framework. Some of the stuff they wanted to do was still in its infancy but gpus featured in the list of near future offerings they were looking at