Ben Zaitlen

Benjamin is a System Software Manager at NVIDIA. He has been a long time contributor to the Python and PyData ecosystem. Currently he is helping accelerate the PyData stack on GPUs as part of the RAPIDS project.
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Posts by Ben Zaitlen

Data Science

Accelerating GPU Analytics Using RAPIDS and Ray

RAPIDS is a suite of open-source GPU-accelerated data science and AI libraries that are well supported for scale-out with distributed engines like Spark and... 4 MIN READ
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Unified Virtual Memory Supercharges pandas with RAPIDS cuDF

cuDF-pandas, introduced in a previous post, is a GPU-accelerated library that accelerates pandas to deliver significant performance improvements—up to 50x... 5 MIN READ
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Best Practices for Multi-GPU Data Analysis Using RAPIDS with Dask

As we move towards a more dense computing infrastructure, with more compute, more GPUs, accelerated networking, and so forth—multi-gpu training and analysis... 5 MIN READ
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Faster Causal Inference on Large Datasets with NVIDIA RAPIDS

As consumer applications generate more data than ever before, enterprises are turning to causal inference methods for observational data to help shed light on... 4 MIN READ
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Debugging a Mixed Python and C Language Stack

Debugging is difficult. Debugging across multiple languages is especially challenging, and debugging across devices often requires a team with varying skill... 18 MIN READ
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NVIDIA Tools Extension API: An Annotation Tool for Profiling Code in Python and C/C++

As PyData leverages much of the static language world for speed including CUDA, we need tools which not only profile and measure across languages but also... 9 MIN READ