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.

ADT Mag - MapD Technologies Inc., one of a group of select companies that offer GPU-accelerated databases, today announced the open sourcing of its MapD Core database.

HIT Infrastructure - Continuum Analytics, H2O.ai, and MapD Technologies the GPU Open Analytics Initiative (GOAI) to establish common data frameworks to support data analytics

BusinessWire - Continuum Analytics, H2O.ai and MapD Technologies Create Open Common Data Frameworks for GPU In-Memory Analytics

Mark Litwintschik Tech Blog - I was blown away when I recently heard MapD was going to make the source code for their GPU-powered database freely available on GitHub

Inside HPC - Today MapD Technologies released the MapD Core database to the open source community under the Apache 2 license, seeding a new generation of data applications.

The Next Platform - The idea of offloading computational tasks from CPUs to GPU accelerators took off in academia a little more than a decade ago...

Fortune - MapD, a startup that uses powerful graphics chips for intensive data crunching jobs, has received $25 million in new funding.

Datanami - MapD Technologies, the big data analytics platform startup developing a parallel SQL database that runs on GPUs, has more than doubled its venture-funding total with the close of its latest investment round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA).

siliconANGLE - Artificial intelligence applications aren’t the only kind of enterprise workload that can take advantage of graphics processing units.