Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt is a senior developer technology engineer at NVIDIA. He focuses on accelerating data analytics applications on GPUs. Before joining NVIDIA in 2021, Eric spent 11 years in the aerospace industry developing software and researching algorithms in applied mathematics.
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Data Center / Cloud Jun 30, 2026

Designing GPU-Accelerated Query Engines with NVIDIA GQE

GPU-accelerated query engines are often constrained by memory and I/O bandwidth. NVIDIA hardware advances—including high bandwidth memory (HBM), NVIDIA... 13 MIN READ
Data Science Oct 06, 2025

Speeding Up Data Decompression with nvCOMP and the NVIDIA Blackwell Decompression Engine

Compression is a common technique to reduce storage costs and accelerate input/output transfer times across databases, data-center communications,... 7 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design Mar 18, 2022

Accelerating Lossless GPU Compression with New Flexible Interfaces in NVIDIA nvCOMP

Compression can improve performance in a variety of use cases such as DL workloads, databases, and general HPC. On the GPU, compression can accelerate inter-GPU... 12 MIN READ