Think of weather forecasting and satellite images on the local news probably come to mind. But another technology has transformed the task of forecasting and simulating the weather: supercomputing. Weather and climate models are both compute and data intensive. Forecast quality depends on model complexity and high resolution. Resolution depends on the performance of supercomputers. Read article >

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NVIDIA just outperformed by nearly 20x the record for running the standard big data analytics benchmark, known as TPCx-BB. Using the RAPIDS suite of open-source data science software libraries powered by 16 NVIDIA DGX A100 systems, NVIDIA ran the benchmark in just 14.5 minutes, versus the current leading result of 4.7 hours on a CPU Read article >

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Scientists and researchers around the world are racing to find a cure for COVID-19. That’s made the work of all those digitally gathered for this week’s high performance computing conference, ISC 2020 Digital, more vital than ever. And the work of these researchers is broadening to encompass a wider range of approaches than ever. The Read article >

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The new ranking of the TOP500 supercomputers paints a picture of modern scientific computing, expanded with AI and data analytics, and accelerated with NVIDIA technologies. Eight of the world’s top 10 supercomputers now use NVIDIA GPUs, InfiniBand networking or both. They include the most powerful systems in the U.S., Europe and China. NVIDIA, now combined Read article >

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The small but mighty NVIDIA Jetson Nano has added yet another accolade to the company’s armory of awards. The Edge AI and Vision Alliance, a worldwide collection of companies creating and enabling applications for computer vision and edge AI, has named Jetson Nano its 2020 Vision Product of the Year Award for “Best AI Processor.” Read article >

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AI is spreading from agriculture to X-rays thanks to its uncanny ability to quickly infer smart choices based on mounds of data. As the datasets and the neural networks analyzing them grow, users are increasingly turning to NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate AI inference. To see inference at work, just look under the hood of widely Read article >

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NASA is using Quadro RTX GPUs to shine some sunlight on data analytics. The U.S. space agency’s Solar Dynamics Observatory collects images of the sun to help scientists and researchers gain insight into the different types of solar variations and how they affect life on Earth. This data is a valuable asset for the research Read article >

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The NVIDIA DRIVE Labs video series provides an inside look at how self-driving software is developed. One year and 20 episodes later, it’s clear there’s nearly endless ground to cover. The series dives into topics ranging from 360-degree perception to panoptic segmentation, and even predicting the future. Autonomous vehicles are one of the great computing Read article >

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