Course Overview
Learn how to perform multiple analysis tasks on large datasets using NVIDIA RAPIDS™, a collection of data science libraries that allows end-to-end GPU acceleration for data science workflows.
Prerequisites
Experience with Python, ideally including pandas and NumPy.
Suggested resources to satisfy prerequisites: Kaggle's pandas Tutorials, Kaggle's Intro to Machine Learning, Accelerating Data Science Workflows with RAPIDS
Course Objectives
- Implement GPU-accelerated data preparation and feature extraction using cuDF and Apache Arrow data frames
- Apply a broad spectrum of GPU-accelerated machine learning tasks using XGBoost and a variety of cuML algorithms
- Execute GPU-accelerated graph analysis with cuGraph, achieving massive-scale analytics in small amounts of time
- Rapidly achieve massive-scale graph analytics using cuGraph routines