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MapD Technologies Inc., one of a group of select companies that offer GPU-accelerated databases, today announced the open sourcing of its MapD Core database. The company is contributing the project to the open source community and placing its code on GitHub under an Apache 2 license in order to seed a new generation of data applications.
"MapD pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to analyze multi-billion-row datasets in milliseconds, orders-of-magnitude faster than traditional CPU-based systems," the company said in a statement. "By open sourcing the MapD Core database and associated visualization libraries, MapD is making the world's fastest analytics platform available to everyone."
[...] The company also announced a free Community Edition of its software -- provided for non-commercial development and academic use...
Source: https://adtmag.com/articles/2017/05/08/mapd-gpu-database.aspx
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 15 2017, @05:09AM
So one will need a system'd CentOS 7 (x86_64) to run the prebuilt package containing dependency packages and "It is preferred, but not necessary, to install CUDA and the NVIDIA drivers using the .deb using the instructions provided by NVIDIA".
You will end up with military industrial complex ruled CentOS that has been system'd thanks to Poettler dependent on the proprietary whims of NVIDIA. In other words enjoy it while you can and don't expect any upgrade path or avoiding planned obsolescence by NVidia or RedHat.