Is GPU technology giving Spark a flame? #BigDataNYC

Gearing up for three days of coverage of BigDataNYC 2016 at 37 Pillars in New York City, the SiliconANGLE Media team and NVIDIA Corp. hosted The Future: AI-Driven Analytics, An Evening of Deep Learning. This event kicked off the conversation about deriving benefits from Big Data to advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). An event panel met to talk about deep learning, what it means, where it's headed and implications for next-gen apps. Panelists Jim McHugh, VP and GM of NVIDIA Corp.; Randy Swanberg, distinguished engineer at IBM; Ram Sriharsha, product manager, Apache Spark, at DataBricks, Inc.; and Josh Patterson, director of Field Engineering at Skymind joined host George Gilbert, (@ggilbert41), Big Data analyst at Wikibon and theCUBE cohost (from the SiliconANGLE Media team), to talk about deep learning and where is going in the future. Gilbert began the panel discussion by saying that the real advance that is impending right now is the magnitude of cores that use GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit) as auxiliary processing units, which he feels is going to change the future of where computation will go.