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Gut Instinct: Human Microbiome May Reveal COVID-19 Mysteries
Days before a national lockdown in the U.S., Daniel McDonald realized his life’s work had put a unique tool in his hands to fight COVID-19. The assay kits his team… Read Article
NVIDIA Chief Scientist Releases Low-Cost, Open-Source Ventilator Design
NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally this week released an open-source design for a low-cost, easy-to-assemble mechanical ventilator. The ventilator, designed in just a few weeks by Dally — whose storied… Read Article
Calling AI: Researchers Dial in Machine Learning for 5G
5G researchers from three top institutions have joined NVIDIA in bringing AI to telecom. The Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), the Technical University in Berlin (TU Berlin) and Virginia Tech are… Read Article
Speeding Recovery: GPUs Put Genomics on Faster Pathways
Days after giving an online talk on how GPUs reduce the time to understand diseases, Margaret Linan felt sick, and awoke at 3am gasping for air. “It was quite frightening,”… Read Article
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
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
Researchers Make Movies of the Brain with CUDA
When colleagues told Sally Epstein they sped up image processing by three orders of magnitude for a client’s brain-on-a-chip technology, she responded like any trained scientist. Go back and check… Read Article