Launch HN: ParaQuery (YC X25) – GPU Accelerated Spark/SQL

Hey HN! I'm Win, founder of ParaQuery ( https://paraquery.com ), a fully-managed, GPU-accelerated Spark + SQL solution. We deliver BigQuery's ease of use (or easier) while being significantly more cost-efficient and performant. Here's a short demo video demonstrating ParaQuery (vs. BigQuery) on a simple ETL job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu379YnccGU It's well known that GPUs are very good for many SQL and dataframe tasks, at least by researchers and GPU companies like NVIDIA. So much so that, in 2018, NVIDIA launched the RAPIDS program and the Spark-RAPIDS plugin (https://github.com/NVIDIA/spark-rapids). I actually found out because, at the time, I was trying to craft a CUDA-based lambda calculus interpreter…one of several ideas I didn't manage to implement, haha. There seems to be a perception among at least some engineers that GPUs are only good for AI, graphics, and maybe image processing (maybe! someone actually told me they thought GPUs are bad for image processing!) Trad ... Read full article.