Accelerating ETL on KubeFlow with RAPIDS

In the machine learning and MLOps world, GPUs are widely used to speed up model training and inference, but what about the other stages of the workflow like ETL pipelines or hyperparameter optimization? Within the RAPIDS data science framework, ETL tools are designed to have a familiar look and feel to data scientists working in Python. Do you currently use Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, or other parts of the PyData stack within your KubeFlow workflows? If so, you can use RAPIDS to accelerate those parts of your workflow by leveraging the GPUs likely already available in your cluster. In this post, I demonstrate how to drop RAPIDS into a KubeFlow environment.