Enterprise applications have become increasingly demanding. Agentic AI has compounded the need for vast amounts of enterprise data with frequent, complex queries across increasingly large datasets.
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How to Rewrite Apache Spark UDFs for GPU Acceleration with AI Agents
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Meeting that demand requires greater data throughput without a proportional increase in cost. NVIDIA cuDF addresses this challenge by leveraging the massive parallelism and high-bandwidth memory of GPUs for data analytics. Particularly, the NVIDIA cuDF plugin for Apache Spark brings this acceleration to Apache Spark, the industry-leading platform for big data processing and analytics, to achieve better TCO performance in major workloads.
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