Unlock high-performance data and AI processing with Gathr.ai + NVIDIA RAPIDS

To support AI outcomes like real-time fraud detection, hyper-personalization, and conversational intelligence, businesses must process large, complex datasets efficiently — while also integrating seamlessly with AI. However, meeting these requirements often poses significant obstacles:

Heavy CPU dependency for data preparation: AI-driven use cases demand seamless integration of data engineering and AI workflows. But most core transformation tasks are still executed on CPUs, while AI workflows like model training and inferencing rely on GPUs. This separation causes delays as AI tasks wait for data to be prepared, leading to inefficiencies, underutilization of resources, and slower experimentation cycles.

Limitations of CPU-based systems: CPU-bound systems aren’t designed to handle large-scale data and AI workloads — especially when dealing with real-time or unstructured data. As a result, several downstream AI tasks often get delayed.

Rising operational complexity and costs: Managing AI and data workflows across siloed infrastructure and tools drives up costs and engineering effort. Without a unified execution layer, teams spend more time maintaining pipelines than generating insights — slowing both development and delivery.

NVIDIA RAPIDS is a suite of open-source software libraries and APIs designed to accelerate data processing and machine learning workflows using GPUs. By harnessing the parallel computing power of NVIDIA’s GPU hardware, RAPIDS speeds up common data and AI tasks like data wrangling, transformation, model training, and inference. This enables quicker model iterations, faster time-to-insights, and substantial cost savings.

Gathr.ai is now integrated with NVIDIA RAPIDS, bringing together data processing and AI workflows on a shared GPU-accelerated infrastructure. By combining Gathr.ai’s advanced data+AI pipelining capabilities with RAPIDS’ GPU-powered acceleration, teams can process large datasets faster and handle complex workflows effortlessly. They can speed up both data preparation and model training, empowering businesses to make faster, smarter decisions, and maintain a competitive edge. What’s more, Gathr.ai empowers developers with complete flexibility and control at every step. With the integration of RAPIDS, they can harness the power of GPUs without changing their existing workflows. Here’s what the Gathr.ai + RAPIDS integration enables:

Faster performance, lower latency: Leverage GPU-powered data processing for faster execution, near-real-time workflows, and seamless experimentation.

Higher ROI on GPU infrastructure: Maximize utilization of GPU resources across both data and AI workloads for better price-performance.

Seamless GPU adoption: Easily transition existing pipelines to run on RAPIDS-powered clusters — no ETL rewrites or new tooling required.

Flexible workload management: Choose which workloads to run on GPUs and which ones to execute on CPUs, optimizing cost and compute efficiency.

Scalable and cost-efficient infrastructure: Seamlessly allocate additional GPU resources during peak workloads, while utilizing fixed clusters for routine operations, with on-demand scalability.

To highlight the improvements that GPU acceleration brings to data pipeline workflows, we benchmarked the performance of data processing with and without NVIDIA RAPIDS. We used TPC-DS queries to benchmark processing results and compare query performance on CPU-only systems vs. GPU-accelerated systems on Amazon EMR clusters.

In such read-intensive jobs, where most of the execution time is spent simply reading data rather than processing it, the benefits of GPU acceleration are limited. Yet, we noticed a notable increase in data access throughput compared to CPU-only systems.

We observed up to 2x performance gains when running the queries on Amazon EMR, along with significantly lower operational costs.

GPU clusters accelerated by NVIDIA RAPIDS

Whether you’re processing massive datasets or enabling downstream AI workflows, Gathr.ai + RAPIDS power high performance, real-world data and AI applications across industries. Here are a few of the top use cases:

Patient journey modeling in healthcare: Process and join millions of patient records from Electronic Health Records (EHRs), labs, and billing systems to build longitudinal patient journeys. RAPIDS speeds up filtering, deduplication, and complex joins, while Gathr.ai simplifies orchestration — enabling faster cohort identification for clinical studies or AI-driven diagnostics.

Customer 360 and personalization in retail: Unify clickstream data, transaction history, and product catalogs to create dynamic customer profiles. RAPIDS accelerates transformation and feature generation, while Gathr.ai routes outputs into real-time recommendation engines/marketing segmentation models — all without CPU bottlenecks.

Financial fraud detection: Ingest and transform transactional data in near real-time using GPU-accelerated feature extraction. Reduce fraud detection latency from minutes to seconds with faster scoring and labeling using downstream AI models. Logistics optimization and delivery forecasting: Aggregate location data, inventory updates, and delivery status feeds from IoT devices across global fleets. Enable faster route recalculations, anomaly detection, and predictive ETA modeling, for better operational efficiency in high-frequency logistics environments.

Real-time sentiment analysis from multilingual social data: Stream social media feeds, enrich them with metadata (language, topic, region), and perform NLP-based sentiment scoring. RAPIDS accelerates pre-processing and vectorization, while Gathr.ai handles pipeline management and model integration for marketing or crisis management teams.

The integration of Gathr.ai with NVIDIA RAPIDS provides a unified, future-proof approach to solving data challenges in the AI era. With GPU-accelerated infrastructure, organizations can tackle vast datasets more efficiently, reduce operational costs, and generate intelligence faster — crucial advantages in today’s data-driven landscape. Adopting this unified solution empowers businesses to skyrocket performance and AI innovation.

To learn more about how Gathr.ai and NVIDIA RAPIDS can supercharge your data engineering, AI and analytics workflows, schedule a demo today!