Deep Learning on Databricks

We are excited to announce the general availability of Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) and deep learning support on Databricks! This blog post will help users get started via a tutorial with helpful tips and resources, aimed at data scientists and engineers who need to run deep learning applications at scale. Databricks now offers a simple way to leverage GPUs to power image processing, text analysis, and other machine learning tasks. Users can create GPU-enabled clusters with EC2 P2 instance types. Databricks includes pre-installed NVIDIA drivers and libraries, Apache Spark deployments configured for GPUs, and material for getting started with several popular deep learning libraries.