Days before a national lockdown in the U.S., Daniel McDonald realized his life’s work had put a unique… Read Article
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Mixing It Up: Saudi Researchers Accelerate Environmental Models with Mixed Precision
Scientists studying environmental variables — like sea surface temperature or wind speed — must strike a balance between the number of data points in their statistical models and the time… Read Article
Supercomputers Get the Hard Cell: Researchers Use GPUs to Discover Molecular Design Principles of Photosynthesis
Energy efficiency isn’t just a concern for vehicle design or the power grid — it’s a calculation occurring at a microscopic level in every living cell. Whether it feeds on… Read Article
NVIDIA Brings GPU, HPC and AI Expertise to COVID-19 Battle
A task force of NVIDIA computer scientists has joined the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which brings together leaders from the U.S. government, industry and academia to accelerate research using… Read Article
Virus War Goes Viral: Folding@home Gets 1.5+ Exaflops to Fight COVID-19
The tweet party started on Wednesday, March 25, at 1:55pm. That’s when the research network that Folding@home manages had arguably become the world’s most powerful supercomputer. Its call to help… Read Article
Engage Warp Drive: Innovation Awaits at the HPC Summit
Update: The HPC Summit Digital will be held online June 29-July 2, 2020 and is described in an blog here. Content from our 2020 GPU Technology Conference is now available… Read Article
5 Predictions for Data Center AI Infrastructure in 2020
The AI “gold rush” is on — and in 2020 more enterprises will reap its rewards via bread-and-butter use cases that enhance customer relationships, deliver better outcomes for healthcare patients,… Read Article
GPU-Powered Semi Simulation Snags Coveted Research Award
Researchers tapped GPUs in the world’s most powerful supercomputer to set a record simulating current flows through a chip, snagging the 2019 Gordon Bell prize, awarded at this week’s SC19… Read Article
Smart into Art: NVIDIA SC19 Booth Turns Computer Scientists into Art at News-Filled Show
Back in the day, the annual SC supercomputing conference was filled with tabletops hung with research posters. Three decades on, this week’s Denver edition was a sea of sharp-angled booths,… Read Article