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mapd.com
Company blog · mapd.com/blogdatahardware
mapd.com is the company blog at mapd.com, writing about data and hardware. Since 2015, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 200 times, most often “GPU powered tweetmap: 395M geolocated tweets going back two months”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (29) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links MapD for its GPU-accelerated open source database and visual analytics platform, its tweet-map demos and performance benchmarks, and as a reference in GPU database discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 29 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- GPU powered tweetmap: 395M geolocated tweets going back two months5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-07-28
- /3 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2015-03-21
- /demos/ships3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2017-07-25
- Optimizing Server-Side Rendering for Billion Plus Row Datasets3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-05-21
- 136M Live Geo-Located Tweets with# and keyword filtering3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-06-01
- An interactive GPU-powered deep dive into 11.6 billion rows of US shipping data3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-08-22
- What is a GPU and why do I care?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-01-23
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-11
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-02-21
- Exploring 13 Seasons (7,588,492 Plays) of the NBA in Real Time3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-21
What Hacker News says?
MapD | San Francisco (city) | Backend Developer, Frontend Visualization Developer, Technical Marketing Director (ONSITE) MapD ( https://www.mapd.com ) is a Google Ventures/Nvidia/Verizon Ventures/Vanedge/In-Q-Tel backed Series A startup that builds a lightning-fast GPU-accelerated database and visual analytics platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. We can literall…
Comment linking /demos/taxis
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted MapD Open Sources GPU-Powered Database as a story · 263 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city) | Backend Developer, Frontend Visualization Developer, Developer Advocate (ONSITE/REMOTE) MapD ( https://www.mapd.com ) is a NEA/Google Ventures/Nvidia/Verizon Ventures/Vanedge/In-Q-Tel backed Series B startup that builds a lightning-fast open source GPU-accelerated database and visual analytics platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. We…
Comment linking /demos/ships
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted Using GPUs to Speed Through the 1.2B Record Taxi Dataset as a story · 203 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city), | Backend Developer, Frontend Visualization Developer, Developer Advocate (ONSITE/REMOTE) MapD ( https://www.mapd.com ) is a NEA/Google Ventures/Nvidia/Verizon Ventures/Vanedge/In-Q-Tel backed Series B startup that builds a lightning-fast open source GPU-accelerated database and visual analytics platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. W…
Comment linking /demos/ships
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted Visualizing Large Datasets on the GPU with Vega and MapD as a story · 117 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city) | Frontend Visualization Developer, Backend Developer MapD ( http://www.mapd.com ) is a Google Ventures/Nvidia backed seed-stage startup that builds a hyper-fast big data analytics visualization platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. We literally can run queries orders of magnitude faster than other systems and since the results are on…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted Using LLVM to Accelerate Application Performance on GPUs as a story · 61 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city) | Backend Developer, Frontend Visualization Developer (ONSITE) MapD ( http://www.mapd.com ) is a Google Ventures/Nvidia/Verizon Ventures/Vanedge backed Series A startup that builds a lightning-fast GPU-accelerated database and visual analytics platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. We can literally run queries orders of magnitude faster…
Comment linking /demos/tweetmap
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted Announcing the MapD Cloud: self-service GPU-accelerated analytics as a story · 60 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city) | MapD Community Manager, Backend Developer, Director of Application Design, Frontend Engineer, Senior Graphics Engineer, other roles (ONSITE/REMOTE) MapD ( https://www.mapd.com ) is an open source NEA/Google Ventures/Nvidia/Verizon Ventures/Vanedge/In-Q-Tel backed Series B startup that builds a lightning-fast GPU-accelerated database and visual analytics platform that takes advantage of…
Comment linking /company/careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Interactively explore millions of tweets with the MapD GPU-powered database as a story · 55 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city) | Backend Developer, Frontend Visualization Developer, Technical Marketing Director (ONSITE) MapD ( https://www.mapd.com ) is a Google Ventures/Nvidia/Verizon Ventures/Vanedge/In-Q-Tel backed Series A startup that builds a lightning-fast GPU-accelerated database and visual analytics platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. We can literall…
Comment linking /demos/taxis
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted Interactively Explore 120M Flight Records with GPUs as a story · 46 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city), | Backend Developer, Frontend Visualization Developer (ONSITE/REMOTE) MapD ( https://www.mapd.com ) is a NEA/Google Ventures/Nvidia/Verizon Ventures/Vanedge/In-Q-Tel backed Series B startup that builds a lightning-fast open source GPU-accelerated database and visual analytics platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. We can literally run…
Comment linking /demos/ships
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted Why AWS's new GPU instances are a computing inflection point as a story · 13 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city), | Backend Developer, Frontend Visualization Developer, Developer Advocate (ONSITE/REMOTE) MapD ( https://www.mapd.com ) is a NEA/Google Ventures/Nvidia/Verizon Ventures/Vanedge/In-Q-Tel backed Series B startup that builds a lightning-fast open source GPU-accelerated database and visual analytics platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. W…
Comment linking /demos/ships
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Submitted The Toxic Effects of Latency in Analytical Applications as a story · 12 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city) | Backend Developer, Frontend Visualization Developer (ONSITE) MapD ( http://www.mapd.com ) is a Google Ventures/Nvidia/Verizon Ventures/Vanedge backed Series A startup that builds a lightning-fast GPU-accelerated database and visual analytics platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. We can literally run queries orders of magnitude faster…
Comment linking /demos/tweetmap
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Announcing MapD 4.0 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city) | Backend Developer (ONSITE) MapD ( http://www.mapd.com ) is a Google Ventures/Nvidia/Verizon Ventures/Vanedge backed Series A startup that builds a lightning-fast GPU-accelerated database and visual analytics platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. We can literally run queries orders of magnitude faster than other systems and since the…
Comment linking /demos/tweetmap
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Scaling Pandas to the Billions with Ibis and MapD as a story · 10 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city), | Backend Developer, Frontend Visualization Developer, Developer Advocate (ONSITE/REMOTE) MapD ( https://www.mapd.com ) is a NEA/Google Ventures/Nvidia/Verizon Ventures/Vanedge/In-Q-Tel backed Series B startup that builds a lightning-fast open source GPU-accelerated database and visual analytics platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. W…
Comment linking /demos/ships
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted Exploring data with pandas and MapD using Apache Arrow as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIf you have a local setup, a ton of data, and a few good GPU(s)+ I would go bare metal with MapD ( http://www.mapd.com ) vs. the cloud.
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on “Google Data Studio”Submitted Optimizing Server-Side Rendering for Billion Plus Row Datasets as a story · 9 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city) | Backend Developer, Frontend Visualization Developer MapD ( http://www.mapd.com ) is a Google Ventures/Nvidia backed Series A startup that builds a lightning-fast GPU-accelerated database and analytics platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. We can literally run queries orders of magnitude faster than other systems and since the results…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)”Submitted How VW predicts churn with GPU-accelerated ML and visual analytics as a story · 8 points
HN discussionMapD | San Francisco (city) | Backend Developer, Frontend Visualization Developer, MapD ( http://www.mapd.com ) is a Google Ventures/Nvidia backed startup that builds a hyper-fast big data analytics visualization platform that takes advantage of the massive parallelism and high memory bandwidth of GPUs. We literally can run SQL queries orders of magnitude faster than other systems and since the results are on the GP…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”Submitted Connecting pandas to a GPU database with Apache Arrow as a story · 8 points
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