Caesars Entertainment to Speak about Performing Super-Charged Tableau Queries with Kinetica’s GPU-Accelerated Database at Tableau Conference

Kinetica, provider of the world’s fastest GPU-accelerated analytics database, today announced that Caesars Entertainment Corporation will present a session at Tableau Conference 2017 about how it harnessed the power of GPU-accelerated computing to enable 24x faster on load and 3.5x faster on query reporting on Tableau with Kinetica’s in-memory, GPU-enabled database. Additionally, Kinetica will present at Bay Area GPU-Accelerated Computing Meetup in October.

Details of upcoming presentations include:

Tableau Conference 2017

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When:  Tuesday, October 10 at 3:30 pm
Where:  Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV
What:  SVP, Chief Analytics Officer Gene Lee of Caesars Entertainment Corporation will present a session titled, “Playing to Win – Turbocharged Tableau with a GPU Database.”   Tableau query performance shifts into an entirely new gear when taking advantage of the massively parallel compute processing power of GPUs. Learn what happens when the world’s most diversified casino-entertainment provider deploys the industry’s fastest database to accelerate Tableau dashboards.

Kinetica will also exhibit at the conference in Booth #115.

Bay Area GPU-Accelerated Computing Meetup

When:  Thursday, October 19 at 6:00 pm
Where:  NVIDIA, Building E (Marco Polo Room), 2770 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, CA.  Register here
What: Mate Radalj, vice president, field operations, Kinetica, will present, “Bring Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics to Geospatial Data with a GPU Data.”

Additionally, Kinetica can be found exhibiting at the GPU Technology Conference Europe on October 10 – 12 in Munich, Germany; Future Tech Jakarta on October 10; TDWI Accelerate on October 16 – 17 in Bellevue, WA; NVIDIA AI Conference on October 23 – 24 in Singapore; and NVIDIA Deep Learning Day on October 31 – November 2 in Seoul, South Korea.

About Kinetica

Kinetica is the creator of the real-time analytical database for time series and spatial workloads with the unrivaled scale, speed and specialized analytics required for harnessing value from sensor and machine data. Many of the world's largest companies across the public sector, financial services, telecommunications, energy, healthcare, retail, automotive and beyond rely on Kinetica to create new location-driven solutions to outperform the competition, including the US Air Force, USPS, Citibank, T-Mobile, and others. Kinetica is a privately-held company, backed by leading global venture capital firms Canvas Ventures, Citi Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, and Meritech Capital Partners. Kinetica has a rich partner ecosystem, including AWS, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Intel, Dell, Tableau, and Oracle. For more information and to try Kinetica, visit kinetica.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.