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Many big-data-driven companies are turning to GPU's in place of a traditional cluster. I think we will see a leap to a more 'GPU First' mindset over the coming years. I have been using a low grade consumer GPU (NVIDIA GeForce 1060) to accomplish things that were previously only realistically capable on a cluster. Here is why I think this is the direction data science will go in the next 5 years. The GTX 1080 Ti is illustrated below, it shows that this card has 3584 CUDA cores that can process data in parallel.