AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Nvidia RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark

Amazon EMR on EKS now supports accelerated computing over graphics processing unit (GPU) instance types using Nvidia RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark. The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in analytics has increased the need for processing data quickly and cost efficiently with GPUs. Nvidia RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark helps customers leverage the benefit of GPU performance while saving infrastructure costs. With this release, EMR on EKS customer can use the RAPIDS accelerator by simply specifying the Spark-RAPIDS release label when calling EMR on EKS API.

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