Thursday, August 25, 2011

When GPU Computing meets Advanced Analytics

In August the HPC/GPU Supercomputing Meetup Group featured a talk that generated much interest in both the GPU and the advanced analytics communities.

As an effort to expand readership, I posted the blog at NVIDIA's blog site as a guest author. Thanks to Will Park of NVIDIA for his help and suggestions.

We would love to hear your experience using GPUs to accelerate analytics: What are the challenges and how did you overcome them? How viable do you find GPUs accelerating advanced analytics? How much of the BI analytics market can GPU effectively address?

About the HPC/GPU Supercomputing Meetup Group:
As this is just one of many stimulating talks and discussions at this Meetup group, here is some background: Dr. Jike Chong initiated the Silicon Valley group in February this year, the group has attracted 200+ members, many of them pioneer parallel software practitioners who are passionate about high performance computing and GPU supercomputing. If you find topics in these areas interesting, join the discussions on Monday September 12!