BigDL: fast, distributed, secure AI for Big Data#

BigDL seamlessly scales your data analytics & AI applications from laptop to cloud, with the following libraries:

  • Orca: Distributed Big Data & AI (TF & PyTorch) Pipeline on Spark and Ray

  • Nano: Transparent Acceleration of Tensorflow & PyTorch Programs on XPU

  • DLlib: “Equivalent of Spark MLlib” for Deep Learning

  • Chronos: Scalable Time Series Analysis using AutoML

  • Friesian: End-to-End Recommendation Systems

  • PPML: Secure Big Data and AI (with SGX Hardware Security)


Choosing the right BigDL library#

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