Originally published at: GPUs for ETL? Run Faster, Less Costly Workloads with NVIDIA RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark and Databricks | NVIDIA Technical Blog
We were stuck. Really stuck. With a hard delivery deadline looming, our team needed to figure out how to process a complex extract-transform-load (ETL) job on trillions of point-of-sale transaction records in a few hours. The results of this job would feed a series of downstream machine learning (ML) models that would make critical retail…