Robert Evans

Robert Evans is a distinguished software engineer at NVIDIA. He is a PMC member of Apache Hadoop, Spark, Storm, and Tez. Prior to NVIDIA, he worked for Yahoo on the Big Data Platform team on Apache Spark, Hadoop, Storm, and Tez. He also worked on enabling the GNU Linux operating system on ARM processors for mobile devices. Robert holds BS degrees in Computer Science and in Computer Engineering from the University of Utah.
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Posts by Robert Evans

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Data Science Jan 29, 2025

Accelerating JSON Processing on Apache Spark with GPUs

JSON is a popular format for text-based data that allows for interoperability between systems in web applications as well as data management. The format has... 9 MIN READ
Data Science Jul 02, 2020

Accelerating Apache Spark 3.0 with GPUs and RAPIDS

Given the parallel nature of many data processing tasks, it’s only natural that the massively parallel architecture of a GPU should be able to parallelize and... 10 MIN READ