OmniSci (Previously MapD) Workshop

The goal of this talk is to deliver an introductory workshop to Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and their application to general purpose analytics. The implications of GPU technology for machine and deep learning have already been enormous and there is a blossoming open source community to prove it. People are leveraging GPUs to make databases faster, complex geospatial analysis better, and to create visual analytics tools that work even with (literal) big data.

Aaron, VP of Global Community, will introduce OmniSci (Previously MapD), a startup based in San Francisco that builds open source and enterprise GPU-enabled SQL database solutions. Aaron will explain how OmniSci’s SQL engine and Immerse visualization platform were built from the ground up to harness all that GPU power. Bring your laptop if you'd like to follow along to the short workshop where we can use their web-based data visualization interface, which uses the GPU to accelerate speed and rendering capabilities.

Speaker Bio
Aaron Williams, VP of Global Community
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/aaronwilliams
Twitter: @arw

Aaron is responsible for OmniSci ’s developer, user and open source communities. He comes to OmniSci with more than two decades of previous success building ecosystems around some of software’s most familiar platforms. Most recently he ran the global community for Mesosphere, including leading the launch and growth of DC/OS as an open source project. Prior to that he led the Java Community Process at Sun Microsystems, and ecosystem programs at SAP. Aaron has also served as the founding CEO of two startups in the entertainment space. Aaron has an MS in Computer Science and BS in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.

Big Data Bellevue Meetup was created by Intelius and takes place in downtown Bellevue. Intelius provides the only centralized service for delivering comprehensive information about people, places, organizations, and their connection to each other. Our state-of-the-art big data technology platform is utilized across a wide range of industries to implement specific solutions.

On the third Wednesday of each month, we invite an industry leader in Big Data to give a presentation followed by a lively discussion on big data technology and its impact on business world. Past speakers include researchers from the University of Washington, as well as senior members of various companies, such as Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, IBM, MapR and inome.

eBay graciously provides free drink and pizza!