Nvidia wants to extend the success of the GPU beyond graphics and deep learning to the full data science experience. Open source Python library Dask is the key to this.

Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the background? There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.

Cloud computing is increasingly distributed, which creates a major leap in complexity, driving the need for AI-based automation.

Anyscale, a startup founded by a team out of UC Berkeley that created the Ray open-source Python framework for running distributed computing projects, has raised $40 million.