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# News

Fixing Unexpected Behavior in Python

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RAPIDS cuDF.pandas 24.08

NVIDIA has just released a major enhancement to RAPIDS cuDF with version 24.08. The new CUDA unified memory feature can boost your data processing speed by up to 30x when using pandas on Linux systems! This means faster, more efficient workflows, especially for GPUs with limited memory. 🎉

CuDF now supports up to 2.1B rows of text data, a game-changer for generative AI pipelines! 💥

Read more about the update in this blog.

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