Tim Livingston

Can Autonomous Vehicles Become Profitable Without PlasmaENGINE®?

by Tim Livingston|17 January 202023 June 2020|Autonomous Vehicles

Can Autonomous Vehicles Become Profitable Without PlasmaENGINE®? Last year, we talked about the Extreme Data Challenges of the connected car. In this post, we’ll examine the data challenges of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). Safety is the paramount concern for automakers and...

Three Questions with Dipin Hora

by Tim Livingston|31 July 201904 August 2019|Musings

In the first installment of Three Questions, a Q&A series with the world's foremost data experts, we chat with Dipin Hora of Movable Ink. Dipin spent the first 12 years of his career working in data warehousing and BI before...

The GPU Wars Are Heating Up

by Tim Livingston|16 June 201917 June 2019|GPUs

AMD Seeks To Challenge NVIDIA -- How Does Its New RDNA Architecture Stack Up? After AMD released it's long-awaited Navi GPU, NVIDIA leaked that it will be releasing the "Super" version of its existing RTX lineup sooner rather than later....

The 3 Most Common ETL Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)

by Tim Livingston|11 June 201911 June 2019|Technology

"Extract, Transform, Load" If you’re an engineer dealing with never-ending streams of data, these three separately innocuous words haunt your dreams when they come together. The process of extracting data from multiple sources, transforming it to suit business needs,...

The Extreme Data Challenges of The Connected Car

by Tim Livingston|06 May 201907 May 2019|Technology

Connected Cars Will Change the World -- Once Manufacturers Figure Out How to Process the Data Driving back from Yosemite last weekend, on a dark road in the middle of the Sierra Nevadas, my back left tire blew. My car...

Testing the Limits of PlasmaENGINE® on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

by Tim Livingston|27 March 201927 March 2019|Technology

PlasmaENGINE® and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Team Up to Produce Incredible Results Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s next-generation cloud technology was designed to handle performance-intensive workloads, including high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, and has given enterprises an incredible new set of tools for digital...

FASTDATA.io and RAPIDS

by Tim Livingston|10 March 201927 March 2019|Technology

RAPIDS Open-Source Software from NVIDIA and FASTDATA.io Set to Revolutionize the Data Science Pipeline We’re all about speed at FASTDATA.io. It’s what attracted our founder Alen Capalik to NVIDIA GPUs in the first place, and it’s what makes us incredibly...

PlasmaENGINE® on IBM POWER9

by Tim Livingston|24 November 201812 March 2019|Standard

GPU POWERed Stream Processing: A New Level of Speed & Efficiency While CPU-bound data processing solutions are limited to processing thousands or maybe millions of events per second, FASTDATA.io exploits the power of NVIDIA GPUs to give your business the...

PlasmaENGINE® Haversine Benchmark

by Tim Livingston|18 September 201814 March 2019|Standard

In our Haversine Benchmark test, Spark processed ~1.6 million rows per second, compared to Plasma Engine which processed ~371 million rows per second. As the first GPU-native real-time stream & hyper-batch processing software, Plasma Engine™ leverages the thousands of cores...

Five Things to Expect at GTC 2019

by Tim Livingston|18 August 201714 March 2019|Standard

No. 5: Robots Robots are revolutionizing almost every industry, and #GTC19 will have some extremely cool GPU-powered bots on display. From smart agriculture, to DNA sequencing, expect to be wowed by our metal-handed friends. No. 4: Self-Driving Cars Autonomous vehicles...