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Re:Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia ... by fluffything on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:03PM (#23181150)
> but I haven't seen e.g. GPU-based databases reach broad adoption

NVIDIA announced today that Apache Spark 3.0 is built on RAPIDS and showed some benchmarks claiming same perf at 1/5 the cost.

Not your classical database application though.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia ... by threeseed on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:21AM (#23192495)
No they have built a GPU accelerated XGBoost library.

Spark 3.0 is in preview stage already and there is no mention of RAPIDS anywhere in the code.

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