Dave Baranec

Dave Baranec is a senior systems software engineer at NVIDIA, working on the Spark RAPIDS Accelerator performance team. He received a B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He spent over two decades working in the games industry as an engine architect and systems engineer.
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Data Science Apr 03, 2025

Accelerating Apache Parquet Scans on Apache Spark with GPUs

As data sizes have grown in enterprises across industries, Apache Parquet has become a prominent format for storing data. Apache Parquet is a columnar storage... 8 MIN READ