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

[Shirley Entzminger]

T O D A Y . . .

 	  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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