Announcements

It is with great pleasure that we today announce two significant milestones for our company: the general availability of our GPU-powered database and visual analytics software platform, and the closing of a $10M Series A round led by Vanedge Capital with participation from Verizon Ventures and Nvidia, joining earlier investor GV (formerly Google Ventures).

In May 2017, MapD along with H2O.ai and Continuum Analytics announced the GPU Open Analytics Initiative (GOAI), with the goal of accelerating end-to-end analytics and machine learning on GPUs. Adoption of GPUs for general purpose computing is a computing revolution driven by NVIDIA’s hardware innovations.

While 2016 was the year of the GPU for a number of reasons, the truth of the matter is that outside of some core disciplines (deep learning, virtual reality, autonomous vehicles) the reasons why you would use GPUs for general purpose computing applications remain somewhat unclear.

This morning Google Cloud announced the upcoming availability of powerful, innovative GPU instances. As a an beta tester of the new offering we had the opportunity to take the instances for a spin and test them out against the 1.2 billion row taxi dataset.

OmniSci recently released two features to the OmniSci Cloud platform: Teams and API access.

The rapid acceleration in data gathering is generating major changes in GEOINT and with GPU-accelerated tools, you can now tap into this data for fast geospatial analytics.

Announcing the availability of MapD Extreme Analytics Platform on the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace

Today we are excited to launch MapD Cloud. Now, anyone can start benefiting from the power of MapD’s GPU-accelerated analytics platform.

We’re very happy to announce that with today’s release of version 3.0 of the MapD Analytics Platform we're bringing GPU-accelerated analytics onto distributed clusters!

We felt it wasn’t fair that only features in our major releases were getting the limelight, so this will be the first in a series of short blog posts featuring an interesting feature or improvement in our regular minor releases of MapD’s GPU-accelerated Core database and Immerse visualization software.