Chapter 10: Hacking Optimus

So far, we have covered almost everything Optimus can do for you, from data loading and data preparation to machine learning and natural language processing.

In this chapter, you will deep dive into Optimus and learn how to expand what Optimus can do for you. We will be covering the following topics:

  • Adding a new engine
  • Bumblebee
  • Joining the community
  • The future
  • Limitations

Technical requirements

Optimus can work with multiple backend technologies to process data, including GPUs. For GPUs, Optimus uses RAPIDS, which needs an NVIDIA card. For more information about the requirements, please go to the GPU configuration section of Chapter 1, Hi Optimus!.

You can find the code for this chapter at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Data-Processing-with-Optimus ...

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