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Database Startup MapD Brings to Life Dream of Gigantic GPU Clusters
Mar 30, 2016

Barron’s - The innovation in MapD’s case is to use many, many GPUs, which makes it possible to store many tables in memory, which means scaling massively parallel collections of GPU cores will rise and rise...

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MapD Locates $10 Million Series A for Faster Databases: Vanedge Capital led the round, which had participation from Verizon Ventures, Nvidia Corporation and GV.
Mar 30, 2016

The Wall Street Journal - MapD uses [GPUs] to power SQL queries. The tool has a wide variety of applications for large sets of enterprise data. It has been used for social media analytics at companies such as Facebook, business intelligence at companies the likes of Verizon and recently has even been used by government agencies.

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Database Startup Snags $10 Million to Speed Analytics
Mar 30, 2016

Fortune - MapD, a startup that’s pressing graphics processors into service to speed up both number crunching and analytics of those numbers, now has $10 million in fresh funding to build up its engineering staff.

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MapD Lands $10M Investment, Launches Real-Time Database
Mar 30, 2016

Nvidia Blog - The MapD database uses GPUs to process SQL queries in parallel across nearly 40,000 cores per server, yielding massive speedups over leading in-memory databases. When paired with the MapD Immerse analytics front-end, the system delivers instant visual insights into datasets with billions of records

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Seasoned Sales Leader Brock Alston Joins MapD as VP, Worldwide Sales
Jan 21, 2016

Market Wire - Alston to Lead Go-to-Market Strategy for MapD's Big Data, Analytics and Visualization Platform

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Until 2008, Trump Was a Big Democratic Donor
Jan 14, 2016

US News & World Report - Between 1989 and 2014, Trump donated a total of $1,219,950, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, obtained through the Sunlight Foundation. The video below, courtesy of MapD, a GPU-powered database and visualization platform for interactive data analytics, shows his ever-changing political allegiance.

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Nvidia must be stoked: This startup is taking graphics chips corporate
Sep 1, 2015

Fortune - With GPUs getting more memory, Mostak realized that the Intel and AMD part of the database can now take a backseat to the graphics processors because the GPUs finally have the memory capabilities to store the data as it’s being processed.

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IBM Puts Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU on SoftLayer Cloud
Jul 9, 2015

eWeek - Startup MapD has been using Tesla K80 accelerators on IBM Cloud for data and analytics. The solution enables multiple users to query and visualize multi-billion row data sets with latencies measured in milliseconds, achieving orders-of-magnitude increases in speed over other solutions

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MapD: Massive Throughput Database Queries with LLVM on GPUs
Jun 23, 2015

Nvidia Blogs - Fast hardware is only half of the story, so at MapD we have invested heavily into optimizing our code such that a wide range of analytic workloads run optimally on GPUs. In particular, we have worked hard so that common SQL analytic operations, such as filtering (WHERE) and GROUP BY, run as fast as possible.

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MapD closer to delivering ‘supercomputer in a box
Mar 6, 2015

VentureBeat - MapD uses graphics processing units (GPUs) to crunch Big Data — the sort that usually only rooms full of servers are able to do, but \“at a fraction of the price of what a big cluster [of servers] would cost, with much greater performance.\"

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