Erik Ordentlich

Erik Ordentlich is currently a senior manager at NVIDIA where he leads a team working on GPU-accelerated distributed machine learning for Apache Spark and federated learning use cases. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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Posts by Erik Ordentlich

Agentic AI / Generative AI Oct 13, 2026

How to Rewrite Apache Spark UDFs for GPU Acceleration with AI Agents

Enterprise applications have become increasingly demanding. Agentic AI has compounded the need for vast amounts of enterprise data with frequent, complex... 8 MIN READ
Data Science Mar 06, 2025

Accelerate Apache Spark ML on NVIDIA GPUs with Zero Code Change

NVIDIA cuDF accelerates Apache Spark with a software plug-in that pioneers a zero code change user experience (UX) for GPU-accelerated data processing. It... 5 MIN READ
Data Science Oct 24, 2023

Reduce Apache Spark ML Compute Costs with New Algorithms in Spark RAPIDS ML Library

Spark RAPIDS ML is an open-source Python package enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration of PySpark MLlib. It offers PySpark MLlib DataFrame API compatibility and... 8 MIN READ
Data Science Apr 18, 2023

New GPU Library Lowers Compute Costs for Apache Spark ML

Spark MLlib is a key component of Apache Spark for large-scale machine learning and provides built-in implementations of many popular machine learning... 6 MIN READ