insideBIGDATA - Continuum Analytics, H2O.ai, and MapD Technologies have announced the formation of the GPU Open Analytics Initiative (GOAI) to create common data frameworks enabling developers and statistical researchers to accelerate data science on GPUs.

SiliconANGLE - Data analytics suppliers Continuum Analytics Inc., H20.ai and MapD Technologies Inc. said today they’re joining forces to create standards for using graphics chips in analytics.

InfoWorld - Horizontal-scaling and high-availability features are still for-pay only, but MapD wants its number-crunching platform to be integral to data science

App Developer Magazine - MapD Technologies, a GPU-powered analytics company, has released their Core database to the open source community under the Apache 2 license, seeding a new generation of data applications.

InfoWorld - New consortium wants to eliminate a common source of slowdowns in the machine learning pipeline by keeping data processing on the GPU

The Next Platform - Moving data is the biggest problem in computing, and probably has been since there was data processing if we really want to be honest about it.

SD Times - Data science and deep learning app leaders are coming together to form the GPU Open Analytics Initiative

Datanami - MapD Technologies, the leader in GPU-powered analytics, today released the MapD Core database to the open source community under the Apache 2 license, seeding a new generation of data applications.

siliconANGLE - MapD Technologies Inc., a fast-rising analytics startup backed by the likes of New Enterprise Associates and Nvidia Corp., beefed up its product lineup today in a bid to open new growth opportunities.

EnterpriseTech - A group of data analytics vendors joined forces today at the GPU Technology Conference to create the GPU Open Analytics Initiative (GOAI) with the goal of fostering the development of a community of data science and deep learning workloads running on GPUs.