IBM has recently announced that it plans to incorporate the new RAPIDS open source software into its enterprise-grade data science platform for on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud environments. 'IBM has a long collaboration with NVIDIA that has shown demonstrable performance increases leveraging IBM technology, like the IBM POWER9 processor, in combination with NVIDIA GPUs,' said Bob Picciano, senior vice president of IBM Cognitive Systems. 'We look to continue to aggressively push the performance boundaries of AI for our clients as we bring RAPIDS into the IBM portfolio.' RAPIDS will help bring GPU acceleration capabilities to IBM offerings that take advantage of open source machine learning software including Apache Arrow, Pandas and scikit-learn. Immediate, wide ecosystem support for RAPIDS comes from key open-source contributors including Anaconda, BlazingDB, Graphistry, NERSC, PyData, INRIA, and Ursa Labs.