New Class of Accelerated, Efficient AI Systems Mark the Next Era of Supercomputing

NVIDIA today unveiled at SC23 the next wave of technologies that will lift scientific and industrial research centers worldwide to new levels of performance and energy efficiency. “NVIDIA hardware and software innovations are creating a new class of AI supercomputers,” said Ian Buck, vice president of the company’s high performance computing and hyperscale data center Read article >

Silicon Volley: Designers Tap Generative AI for a Chip Assist

A research paper released today describes ways generative AI can assist one of the most complex engineering efforts: designing semiconductors. The work demonstrates how companies in highly specialized fields can train large language models (LLMs) on their internal data to build assistants that increase productivity. Few pursuits are as challenging as semiconductor design. Under a Read article >

Heeding Huang’s Law: Video Shows How Engineers Keep the Speedups Coming

In a talk, now available online, NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally  describes a tectonic shift in how computer performance gets delivered in a post-Moore’s law era. Each new processor requires ingenuity and effort inventing and validating fresh ingredients, he said in a recent keynote address at Hot Chips, an annual gathering of chip and systems Read article >

Wide Horizons: NVIDIA Keynote Points Way to Further AI Advances

Dramatic gains in hardware performance have spawned generative AI, and a rich pipeline of ideas for future speedups that will drive machine learning to new heights, Bill Dally, NVIDIA’s chief scientist and senior vice president of research, said today in a keynote. Dally described a basket of techniques in the works — some already showing Read article >

NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally to Keynote at Hot Chips

Bill Dally — one of the world’s foremost computer scientists and head of NVIDIA’s research efforts — will describe the forces driving accelerated computing and AI in his keynote address at Hot Chips, an annual gathering of leading processor and system architects. Dally will detail advances in GPU silicon, systems and software that are delivering Read article >

Score! Team NVIDIA Takes Trophy in Recommendation Systems

A crack NVIDIA team of five machine learning experts spread across four continents won all three tasks in a hotly contested, prestigious competition to build state-of-the-art recommendation systems. The results reflect the group’s savvy applying the NVIDIA AI platform to real-world challenges for these engines of the digital economy. Recommenders serve up trillions of search Read article >

Field to Fork: Startup Serves Food Industry an AI Smorgasbord

It worked like magic. Computer vision algorithms running in a data center saw that a disease was about to infect a distant wheat field in India. Sixteen days later, workers in the field found the first evidence of the outbreak. It was the kind of wizardry people like Vinay Indraganti call digital transformation. He’s practiced Read article >

Forged in Flames: Startup Fuses Generative AI, Computer Vision to Fight Wildfires

When California skies turned orange in the wake of devastating wildfires, a startup fused computer vision and generative AI to fight back. “With the 2020 wildfires, it became very personal, so we asked fire officials how we could help,” said Emrah Gultekin, the Turkish-born CEO of Chooch, a Silicon Valley-based leader in computer vision. California Read article >

Accelerating the Accelerator: Scientist Speeds CERN’s HPC With GPUs, AI

Editor’s note: This is part of a series profiling researchers advancing science with high performance computing.  Maria Girone is expanding the world’s largest network of scientific computers with accelerated computing and AI. Since 2002, the Ph.D. in particle physics has worked on a grid of systems across 170 sites in more than 40 countries that Read article >

Live From Taipei: NVIDIA CEO Unveils Gen AI Platforms for Every Industry

In his first live keynote since the pandemic, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today kicked off the COMPUTEX conference in Taipei, announcing platforms that companies can use to ride a historic wave of generative AI that’s transforming industries from advertising to manufacturing to telecom. “We’re back,” Huang roared as he took the stage after Read article >