AWS Announces New GPU-Accelerated EC2 Instances and Networking Enhancements

Today At AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services, announced a brand new GPU instance offering for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).The new P3dn GPU instances are ideal for distributed machine learning and high-performance computing applications. The instances are comprised of NVIDIA Tesla Tensor Core V100 GPUs each with 32GB of memory. “This enables … Continued

RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark v21.06 Release

Introduction RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark v21.06 is here! You may notice right away that we’ve had a huge leap in version number since we announced our last release. Don’t worry, you haven’t missed anything. RAPIDS Accelerator is built on cuDF, part of the RAPIDS ecosystem. RAPIDS transitioned to calendar versioning (CalVer) in the last … Continued