Get Started with RAPIDS
Unlock new insights and make data more productive by leveraging RAPIDS to accelerate your python based data science and analytics pipelines. Learn how to use our libraries, accelerate common data science use cases, and access hands-on labs to develop business-critical applications.
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cuDF is a GPU DataFrame library that provides a pandas-like API for loading, filtering, and manipulating data. With pandas accelerator mode, it can accelerate pandas workflows on GPUs with zero code changes.
Coming in summer 2024: Accelerated Polars.
The RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark provides a set of plug-ins for Apache Spark that leverage GPUs to accelerate processing via the RAPIDS libraries.
cuGraph is a GPU-accelerated graph analytics library that includes support for property graphs, remote (graph-as-as-ervice) operations, and up to a trillion edge graph neural networks. With the NetworkX GPU backend, you can accelerate popular graph algorithms with zero code changes.
- Overview of Graph Types and Algorithms on cuGraph
- Getting Started Kit for Accelerated Data Science
- NetworkX GPU Backend Powered by cuGraph
- Graph Analytics With cuGraph
- Beginner’s Guide to GPU-Accelerated Graph Analytics in Python
- Accelerating GNNs With DGL, PyG, and cuGraph Webinar
- Accelerating End-to-End Data Science Workflows Online Course
cuML is a unified CPU/GPU library for executing machine learning algorithms with an API that closely follows the Scikit-Learn API.
- Overview of Popular Machine Learning Estimators on cuML
- Getting Started Kit for Accelerated Data Science
- cuML Interoperability with CPU and GPU
- Getting Started With cuML
- Machine Learning With GPU Accelerated Pandas and Sci-kit Learn
- Deep Dive into GPU-Accelerated Technologies Webinar
- Fundamentals of Accelerated Data Science Online Course
Use Case Tutorials
Learn how to accelerate data science in a few short hours in simple technical walk-throughs that pair step-by-step tutorials with notebooks, sample datasets, and benchmarks in example exercises that demonstrate how RAPIDS helps data scientists save time and better leverage their data in ubiquitous data science and machine learning use cases.
Accelerated Data Analysis
Learn how to use RAPIDS cuDF to accelerate data analytics workflows.
This starter kit covers how to use RAPIDS for:
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Time Series Analysis
- Visualization
- DataFrame to ML
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Data Processing at Scale
Explore how to accelerate Apache Spark 3.0 workloads with the RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark.
This starter kit walks through an example use case in retail:
- Data Processing, including ETL and manipulation functions
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Time Series Forecasting
Build time series forecasting models with RAPIDS cuDF and cuML, which mimic pandas and sci-kit learn.
This starter kit includes two examples of time series workflows:
- Time Series Analysis
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Learn How Top-Performing Kaggle Grandmasters Win Data Science Competitions
The Kaggle Grandmasters of NVIDIA place in the top 10% of Kaggle Grandmasters worldwide. Learn their tricks of the trade with our Kaggle Grandmaster series that explain how our teams use accelerated data science to create winning recommender systems and predictive models.
Mastering Multilingual Recommender Systems
The KGMoN leveraged transfer learning, model embedding, and other innovative techniques to construct a two-stage pipeline solution for e-commerce product suggestions. This solution won the 2023 KDD Cup.
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Mastering Recommender Systems
KGMoN tackled an e-commerce use case by training high-functioning recommendation systems with a dataset that included millions of anonymized user interactions. These strategies placed top 3 in Kaggle’s Otto competition.
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Predicting Credit Defaults on a Massive Dataset
Jiwei Liu, KGMON, walks through GPU-acceleration in a default prediction use case (top 10 in Kaggle’s American Express competition) that resulted in significantly faster inference times.
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Experience Enterprise Hardware and Software on NVIDIA Launchpad
Work with NVIDIA experts to try live use cases powered by RAPIDS, in NVIDIA provisioned infrastructure with Launchpad.
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RAPIDS libraries are open source, written in Python, and built on Apache Arrow. The software is being developed in partnership with enterprises globally. Download RAPIDS to dramatically accelerate machine learning and data science.
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