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Dask
Dask helps Python users work with large datasets that don't fit into memory or speed up computations by using multiple processors. It breaks big problems into smaller pieces that can be processed in parallel.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
Dask is an open-source Python library for parallel computing and scalable analytics, enabling out-of-core processing and distributed execution across clusters for NumPy arrays, Pandas DataFrames, and custom workflows.
SYNONYMS & ALIASES
- Distributed Python
- Parallel computing
- Scalable analytics
- Big data Python
USAGE NOTE
Dask is often used in data science and machine learning for scaling computations beyond single-machine limits.
DEVELOPERS
Organizations developing technology related to Dask.
The original corporate sponsor of Dask. Anaconda continues to be a primary contributor to the open-source project and offers enterprise support and solutions built around the Python data science ecosystem, including Dask.
Founded by Matthew Rocklin, the creator of Dask, Coiled provides a managed, cloud-native service for deploying and scaling Dask clusters. The company is a major contributor to the open-source Dask project.
NVIDIA develops the RAPIDS suite of open-source software libraries and APIs, which includes dask-cuda. This library enables Dask to scale data science and analytics workloads across multiple GPUs and multi-node GPU clusters, significantly accelerating computations.
Saturn Cloud provides a data science and machine learning platform that offers managed, enterprise-ready Dask clusters. Their platform simplifies the process of using Dask for parallel computing in cloud environments.
Prefect develops a workflow orchestration platform that integrates deeply with Dask. It provides a DaskTaskRunner that allows users to execute their data pipelines (flows) in parallel on a Dask cluster, enabling scalable and distributed task execution.
An open-source community and project for big data geoscience, Pangeo uses Dask as a core component of its software stack. The community actively contributes to Dask and its integration with libraries like Xarray to enable parallel analysis of massive climate and earth science datasets.
As the creators of the open-source Kedro framework, QuantumBlack develops tools for building production-ready data and machine learning pipelines. Kedro includes a DaskRunner, which allows entire data pipelines to be executed in parallel using Dask.