[Crib-list] Speakers: Tom Graham and Todd Mostak (Co-Founders of Map-D) -- Friday, April 4, 2014 -- TIME: 12:00 Noon in Bldg. 32, Room 141

[Shirley Entzminger]

 	  COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR


DATE:		Friday, April 4, 2014
TIME:		12:00 Noon
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 141 (Stata Center)
 		(32 Vassar Street)

 	[Pizza provided at 11:45 AM outside Room 32-141]


TITLE:	   Map-D: A GPU Database for Interactive Big Data Analytics


SPEAKERS:  TOM GRAHAM and TODD MOSTAK  (Co-Founders of Map-D)


ABSTRACT:

Interactive big data analytics: Using GPUs to power the world's fastest 
database. As part of an emerging conversation between HPC and enterprise, 
this talk will focus on the future of high performance big data analytics 
from enterprise, government and scientific perspectives while tracking the 
challenges posed by data collection, hardware integration and interface 
design. But there is more at stake than data-drive cost savings, these 
perspectives are framed by the need to socialize and democratize 
high-power big data analytics to the advantage of all. Map-D is an 
ultra-fast GPU database that allows anyone to interactively analyze and 
visualize big data in real time. Built into GPU memory, Map-D's unique 
architecture runs 70-1000X faster than other in-memory databases and big 
data analytics platforms. We will also showcase Map-D's public demos, 
including TweetMap that maps over 1 billion tweets in real time and 
CampaignMap that unravels the influence of money on political discourse 
over time.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


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