NVIDIA Livestream: Running Polars on a Single-GPU AWS EC2 with cuDF Polars
NVIDIA Developer · youtube · 2026-10-31
In the third session of its Polars livestream series, NVIDIA Developer demonstrates running the same Polars code on a single-node AWS EC2 instance (NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000), reading Parquet data from S3.
The session covers:
- Running GPU Polars queries on a single-GPU EC2 instance
- Switching a Polars query to the GPU engine with one line of code
- Benchmarking CPU vs. GPU Polars performance
- Building a visualization live, plus common pitfalls when reading data from the cloud and how to avoid them
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