Everyone wants green computing. Mobile users demand maximum performance and battery life. Businesses and governments increasingly require systems… Read Article
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What Is Direct and Indirect Lighting?
Imagine hiking to a lake on a summer day — sitting under a shady tree and watching the water gleam under the sun. In this scene, the differences between light… Read Article
What Is a QPU?
Just as GPUs and DPUs enable accelerated computing today, they’re also helping a new kind of chip, the QPU, boot up the promise of quantum computing…. Read Article
What Is an Exaflop?
Computers are crunching more numbers than ever to crack the most complex problems of our time — how to cure diseases like COVID and cancer, mitigate climate change and more…. Read Article
What Is Zero Trust?
Editor’s note: This article was updated in April 2023. For all its sophistication, the Internet age has brought on a digital plague of security breaches. The steady drumbeat of data… Read Article
What Is a Transformer Model?
If you want to ride the next big wave in AI, grab a transformer. They’re not the shape-shifting toy robots on TV or the trash-can-sized tubs on telephone poles. So,… Read Article
What Is Path Tracing?
Turn on your TV. Fire up your favorite streaming service. Grab a Coke. A demo of the most important visual technology of our time is as close as your living… Read Article
Podsplainer: What’s a Recommender System? NVIDIA’s Even Oldridge Breaks It Down
The very thing that makes the internet so useful to so many people — the vast quantity of information that’s out there — can also make going online frustrating. There’s… Read Article
What Is GauGAN? How AI Turns Your Words and Pictures Into Stunning Art
GauGAN, an AI demo for photorealistic image generation, allows anyone to create stunning landscapes using generative adversarial networks. Named after post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, it was created by NVIDIA Research… Read Article