Building NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Pipelines on Azure Synapse Analytics with RAPIDS

Azure recently announced support for NVIDIA’s T4 Tensor Core Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) which are optimized for deploying machine learning inferencing or analytical workloads in a cost-effective manner. With Apache Spark™ deployments tuned for NVIDIA GPUs, plus pre-installed libraries, Azure Synapse Analytics offers a simple way to leverage GPUs to power a variety of data … Continued

AI Research Detects Glaucoma with 94 Percent Accuracy

Glaucoma affects more than 2.7 million people in the U.S. and is one of the leading causes of blindness in the world. To study how deep learning can help doctors more efficiently diagnose the disease, researchers from IBM and New York University have developed a deep learning framework that automatically detects the disease with 94 percent … Continued

GPU Accelerating Node.js JavaScript for Visualization and Beyond

NVIDIA GTC21 had numerous great and engaging contents, especially around RAPIDS, so it would be easy to miss our debut presentation “Using RAPIDS to Accelerate Node.js JavaScript for Visualization and Beyond.” Yep – we are bringing the power of GPU accelerated data science to the JavaScript Node.js community with the Node-RAPIDS project. Node-RAPIDS is an … Continued