GPU

GPU Analytics Ep 3, Apply a function to the rows of a dataframe

The goal of this post is to compare the execution time between Pandas (CPU) and RAPIDS (GPU) dataframes, when applying a simple mathematical function to the rows of a dataframe. Since the row-wise applied function is a re-projection of geographical…


GPU Analytics Ep 2, Load some data from OmniSci into a GPU dataframe

Although the post title is about loading some data from a GPU database into a GPU dataframe, most of it is about running JupyterLab on a GPU AWS instance, which is a little bit cumbersome to set up. Finally, once JupyterLab is running on our…


GPU Analytics Ep 1, GPU installation of OmniSci on AWS

In this post, we are going to install the OmniSci 4.6 GPU database on an Ubuntu 18.04 AWS instance. These are the actual command lines I entered when performing the installation. But let's start by introducing the motivation behind GPU databases:…