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.

Posts by Ben Zaitlen

Data Science Nov 10, 2025

Training XGBoost Models with GPU-Accelerated Polars DataFrames

One of the many strengths of the PyData ecosystem is interoperability, which enables seamlessly moving data between libraries that specialize in exploratory... 7 MIN READ

Data Science Dec 20, 2024

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

Data Science Dec 05, 2024

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

Data Science Nov 21, 2024

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

Data Science Nov 14, 2024

Faster Causal Inference on Large Datasets with NVIDIA CUDA-X

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

Data Science Apr 20, 2023

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