RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark Release v21.08

Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/rapids-accelerator-for-apache-spark-release-v21-08/

NVIDIA Decision Support (NDS) is our adaptation of an industry-standard data science benchmark often used in the Apache Spark community. NDS consists of the same 105 SQL queries as the industry standard benchmark TPC-DS, but has modified parts for dataset generation and execution scripts.