NVIDIA delivers the world’s fastest AI training performance among commercially available products, according to MLPerf benchmarks released today. The A100 Tensor Core GPU demonstrated the fastest performance per accelerator on all eight MLPerf benchmarks. For overall fastest time to solution at scale, the DGX SuperPOD system, a massive cluster of DGX A100 systems connected with… Continue reading NVIDIA Breaks 16 AI Performance Records in Latest MLPerf Benchmarks
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Taiwanese Supercomputing Center Advances Real-Time Rendering from the Cloud with NVIDIA RTX Server and Quadro vDWS
As the stunning visual effects in movies and television advance, so do audience expectations for ever more spectacular and realistic imagery. The National Center for High-performance Computing, home to Taiwan’s most powerful AI supercomputer, is helping video artists keep up with increasing industry demands. NCHC delivers computing and networking platforms for filmmakers, content creators and… Continue reading Taiwanese Supercomputing Center Advances Real-Time Rendering from the Cloud with NVIDIA RTX Server and Quadro vDWS
Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia Sign a Deal to Make Cars More Like iPhones
Courtesy Mercedes-Benz Daimler, the maker of Mercedes-Benz cars, is forming a partnership with Nvidia to develop car computers and artificial-intelligence infrastructure for self-driving vehicles, the companies said. The Benz-Nvidia pact aims to create vehicles that are defined by the software which powers them. That would position the companies to benefit as Apple (ticker: AAPL) has… Continue reading Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia Sign a Deal to Make Cars More Like iPhones
At a Crossroads: How AI Helps Autonomous Vehicles Understand Intersections
Editor’s note: This is the latest post in our NVIDIA DRIVE Labs series. With this series, we’re taking an engineering-focused look at individual autonomous vehicle challenges and how the NVIDIA DRIVE AV Software team is mastering them. Catch up on our earlier posts, here. Intersections are common roadway features, whether four-way stops in a neighborhood… Continue reading At a Crossroads: How AI Helps Autonomous Vehicles Understand Intersections
Riding a Cloud: NVIDIA Acquires Network-Software Trailblazer Cumulus
Cloud data centers are evolving to an architecture that is accelerated, disaggregated and software-defined to meet the exponential growth in AI and high performance computing. To build these modern data centers, HPC and networking hardware and software must go hand in hand. NVIDIA provides the leading accelerated computing platform. Mellanox is the high-performance networking leader,… Continue reading Riding a Cloud: NVIDIA Acquires Network-Software Trailblazer Cumulus
No Supervision Required: Helm.ai Aims to Streamline Self-Driving Development
Removing the human driver from behind the steering wheel may require removing the human being from the development lab. Helm.ai, a startup based in Menlo Park, Calif., that recently came out of stealth, seeks to dramatically reduce the bottlenecks in autonomous vehicle development cycles with an AI training method known as unsupervised learning. Like other… Continue reading No Supervision Required: Helm.ai Aims to Streamline Self-Driving Development
Silicon Valley High Schooler Takes Top Award in Hackster.io Jetson Nano Competition
Over the phone, Andrew Bernas leaves the impression he’s a veteran Silicon Valley software engineer focused on worldwide social causes with a lot of heart. He’s in fact a 16-year-old high school student, and he recently won first place in the AI for Social Good category of the NVIDIA-supported AI at the Edge Challenge. At… Continue reading Silicon Valley High Schooler Takes Top Award in Hackster.io Jetson Nano Competition
NVIDIA Gives COVID-19 Researchers Free Access to Parabricks
When a crisis hits, we all pitch in with what we have. In response to the current pandemic, NVIDIA is sharing tools with researchers that can accelerate their race to understand the novel coronavirus and help inform a response. Starting today, NVIDIA will provide a free 90-day license to Parabricks to any researcher in the… Continue reading NVIDIA Gives COVID-19 Researchers Free Access to Parabricks
Netherlands Cancer Institute Uses Virtualization to Enhance Patient Care, Advance Cancer Research
Cancer doesn’t take nights off. To help beat the disease, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, rated one of the top 10 comprehensive cancer centers in the world, is using virtualization to have its IT infrastructure work the late shift, as well. The NKI, which consists of both research facilities and cancer clinics, has dual goals: to… Continue reading Netherlands Cancer Institute Uses Virtualization to Enhance Patient Care, Advance Cancer Research
From ER Visit to AI Startup, CloudMedx Pursues Predictive Healthcare Models
Twice Sahar Arshad’s father-in-law went to an emergency room in Pakistan complaining of frequent headaches. Twice doctors sent him home with a diagnosis of allergies. Turns out he was suffering from a subdural hematoma — bleeding inside the head. Following the second misdiagnosis, he went into a coma and required emergency brain surgery (and made… Continue reading From ER Visit to AI Startup, CloudMedx Pursues Predictive Healthcare Models