San Francisco-based OmniSci created a novel platform for accelerated analytics that is used by governments and companies to deduce useful insights from data that far outstrip those of normal analytics applications. Its platform is used on both local storage and in the cloud. Developed by researchers at Harvard and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the OmniSci platform leverages the parallel computing power of normal CPUs and GPUs. In a new partnership, the OmniSci platform is a preloaded component in HP Z8 Workstation computers.
HP Z8 Workstation users will use OmniSci to perform accelerated analytics operations on huge datasets right at their work desks. This will allow them to bypass some of the nuisances encountered when using servers and other cloud services.
Billions of lines of data are analyzed in fractions of a second by data scientists, geospatial and financial analysts through OmniSci, yielding useful insights from external and internal data. In fact, OmniSci’s platform provides data scientists and other users with the ability to query 10 billion rows of data in 200 milliseconds, without aggregation or indexing. Telecommunications companies like Verizon use OmniSci to analyze real-time data to optimize customer’s service levels. Verizon uses NVIDIA DGX servers, which collect network reliability reports within seconds, and OmniSci’s GUI platform enables analysts to do their jobs with much greater efficiency.
A federal agency performing geospatial queries on an analytics database trimmed runtimes down from 18 hours to one half-second using OmniSci, and are now targeting 400 times per second.
The Z8 Workstation can be equipped with 56 cores, 48 TB of storage, two NIVIDA Quadro RTX 8000 GPUs along with 3 TB of high-speed memory. Researchers, scientists and analysts can customize the Z8’s hardware to meet their spec, security and budgetary requirements.
Bottom Line
The Z8’s customizable and powerful combination of CPU and GPUs plus OmniSci will allow users to query huge amounts of spatial-temporal data using distributed processing frameworks, in-memory grids and in-memory NewSQL databases much faster and with greater output of useful insights.
You can try OmniSci’s accelerated data analytics platform free for 30 days on a Z8 Workstation.