JSON is a popular format for text-based data that allows for interoperability between systems in web applications as well as data management. The format has been in existence since the early 2000s and came from the need for communication between web servers and browsers. The standard JSON format consists of key-value pairs that can include nested objects. JSON has grown in usage for storing web…
]]>Given the parallel nature of many data processing tasks, it’s only natural that the massively parallel architecture of a GPU should be able to parallelize and accelerate Apache Spark data processing queries, in the same way that a GPU accelerates deep learning (DL) in artificial intelligence (AI). NVIDIA has worked with the Apache Spark community to implement GPU acceleration through the…
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