In high-stakes fields such as quant finance, algorithmic trading, and fraud detection, data practitioners frequently need to process hundreds of gigabytes (GB) of data to make quick, informed decisions. Polars, one of the fastest-growing data processing libraries, meets this need with a GPU engine powered by NVIDIA cuDF that accelerates compute-bound queries that are common in these fields.
]]>Today, Polars released a new GPU engine powered by RAPIDS cuDF that accelerates Polars workflows up to 13x on NVIDIA GPUs, allowing data scientists to process hundreds of millions of rows of data in seconds on a single machine. Traditional data processing libraries like pandas are single-threaded and become impractical to use beyond a few million rows of data.
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