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  1. Dell NY Symposium preview: AI Data Platform for financial services

    Dell Technologies will host its New York Symposium on Oct. 20, spotlighting its AI Data Platform for financial services and discussing agentic AI, AI-powered PCs and modernized infrastructure in the sector. According to SiliconANGLE, the platform uses a four-engine architecture: a data orchestration engine that handles retrieval requests, an Apache Spark-based data processing engine, a data search engine powered by Elasticsearch, and a data analytics engine that exposes an Iceberg lakehouse as a governed SQL query surface. Dell says any MCP-compatible agent framework can discover available data products and run governed queries, while a unified semantic layer aims to give structured and unstructured information consistent business meaning.

    SiliconANGLE AI · 🔥 8
  2. NVIDIA shows how AI agents rewrite Spark UDFs for GPU speedups with cuDF skills

    NVIDIA published a technical post introducing cuDF skills for Apache Spark, a set of agent-oriented skills that guide coding agents through rewriting Apache Spark user-defined functions (UDFs) into GPU-executable implementations. The post explains that UDFs break Spark's declarative abstraction, forcing otherwise GPU-accelerated pipelines to fall back to row-by-row CPU execution with data-transfer overhead, and outlines three rewrite routes: Spark SQL expressions, the RapidsUDF interface using cuDF's Java API, or custom CUDA kernels via JNI. The skills split the work into four verification-driven loops — scaffolding, conversion, benchmarking and optimization — and ship with a project template, test harnesses and benchmark scaffolding. NVIDIA says a major consumer technology company converted more than 30 production UDFs this way; in one example a UDF used by 3,000+ jobs dropped from 274.55 to 12.78 hours of operator time on a 600-billion-row workload, a roughly 22x speedup, and states rewrites can exceed 20x. The skills are available on GitHub and installable via npx skills add NVIDIA/cudf-spark.

    NVIDIA Technical Blog · 🔥 0

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