Integrated GPUs and the Rise of the GPU Dashboard

One of the biggest untalked-about innovations in internet history?

WebGL support. WebGL is so common nowadays that most people don’t even know they’re using it.

Have you ever :

-rendered a Google Earth landscape in insane detail? That’s WebGL.
-ditched PowerPoint and Illustrator entirely for the quickness and ease of a web-based tool like Canva. That’s WebGL.
-previewed a 3D render of a home or product in-browser? Played a game like Quake 3 online? Yup, also WebGL.

This uniform ability to render and interact with high-quality graphics in-browser without plugins has already changed the face of the web. Now is the time to bring that speed and visual quality to business intelligence applications.

We’re now in the era of WebGL 2.0 and powerful GPU dashboards.

Before 2018, dashboards were constrained to HTML and Javascript. Since then, integrated GPUs from the big three hardware manufacturers (Intel, AMD, and Apple) and the adoption of the WebGL 2.0 API from the big three browser creators (Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge) have unleashed a caliber of previously unimaginable browser-based dashboard quality and performance.

This new generation of GPU-accelerated dashboards allows us to

-Drill down to record-level detail with millions of point-of-sale records
-Visually explore the 44 million cell towers worldwide on a map in real-time
-Run time-series animations of weather and cross-correlate crop growth
-Select segments of roadways in large cities like Seoul - 13.5 million
-Perform skill flow analysis with org charts of tens of thousands of employees
-Track player movement through levels in a multiplayer game in real time
-Automatically cross-filter structured and unstructured data types
-Instantly display complex formula analysis in spreadsheet-style views

This level of visibility and shareability means everyone, from data analysts to data scientists to sales managers to C-level executives, can quickly and easily view the same information interactively at a greater scale and level of detail with the same accessibility.

The image displays a graph showing the rise of GPU dashboards. The graph is labeled with the years 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020, indicating the growth of this technology over time. The graph is accompanied by a list of the different types of dashboards, including HTML and JavaScript dashboards, and the rise

A map of a city with a red overlay showing the number of restaurants in each area.

A map of California displaying various transmission lines.

A screenshot of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet displaying various financial data, including sales, revenue, and expenses. The image also includes a pie chart and a line graph, providing a comprehensive view of the financial information.

A map displaying the number of players, track million of player movements through complex game levels.

A screenshot of a computer screen displaying a map of the United States with a blue circle around the state of Florida. The map is accompanied by a description of the data displayed.

Published: Sep 16, 2024 1:45pm UTC