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American Express Adopts NVIDIA AI to Help Prevent Fraud and Foil Cybercrime

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Financial fraud is surging along with waves of cybersecurity breaches. Cybercrime cost the global economy $600 billion annually, or 0.8 percent of worldwide GDP, according to an estimate in 2018 from McAfee. And consulting firm Accenture forecasts cyberattacks could cost companies $5.2 trillion worldwide by 2024. Credit and bank cards are a major target. American Read article >

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How AI Startup BroadBridge Networks Helps Security Teams Make Sense of Data Chaos

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Cybersecurity has grown into a morass. With increasingly hybrid computing environments, dispersed users accessing networks around the clock, and the Internet of Things creating more data than security teams have ever seen, organizations are throwing more security tools than ever at the problem. In fact, Jonathan Flack, principal systems architect at BroadBridge Networks, said it’s Read article >

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AI Scorekeeper: Scotiabank Sharpens the Pencil in Credit Risk

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Paul Edwards is helping carry the age-old business of giving loans into the modern era of AI. Edwards started his career modeling animal behavior as a Ph.D. in numerical ecology. He left his lab coat behind to lead a group of data scientists at Scotiabank, based in Toronto, exploring how machine learning can improve predictions Read article >

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Telltale Signs: AI Researchers Trace Cancer Risk Factors Using Tumor DNA

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Life choices can change a person’s DNA — literally. Gene changes that occur in human cells over a person’s lifetime, known as somatic mutations, cause the vast majority of cancers. They can be triggered by environmental or behavioral factors such as exposure to ultraviolet light or radiation, drinking or smoking. By using NVIDIA GPUs to Read article >

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What Is MLOps?

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MLOps may sound like the name of a shaggy, one-eyed monster, but it’s actually an acronym that spells success in enterprise AI. A shorthand for machine learning operations, MLOps is a set of best practices for businesses to run AI successfully. MLOps is a relatively new field because commercial use of AI is itself fairly Read article >

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NVIDIA Partner Program Expands to 1,500 Members, Adds New Benefits

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NVIDIA’s enterprise partner program has grown to more than 1,500 members worldwide and added new resources to boost opportunities for training, collaboration and sales. The expanded NVIDIA Partner Network boasts an array of companies that span the globe and help customers across a variety of needs, from high performance computing to systems integration. The NPN Read article >

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Mass General’s Martinos Center Adopts AI for COVID, Radiology Research

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Academic medical centers worldwide are building new AI tools to battle COVID-19 —  including at Mass General, where one center is adopting NVIDIA DGX A100 AI systems to accelerate its work. Researchers at the hospital’s Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging are working on models to segment and align multiple chest scans, calculate lung Read article >

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NVIDIA Breaks 16 AI Performance Records in Latest MLPerf Benchmarks

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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 Read article >

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Banking on AI: RBC builds a DGX-powered private cloud

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Royal Bank of Canada built a DGX-powered cloud and tied it to a strategic investment in AI. Despite headwinds from a global pandemic, it will further enable RBC to transform client experiences. The voyage started in the fall of 2017. That’s when RBC, Canada’s largest bank with 17 million clients in 36 countries, created  its Read article >

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Green Light! TOP500 Speeds Up, Saves Energy with NVIDIA

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The new ranking of the TOP500 supercomputers paints a picture of modern scientific computing, expanded with AI and data analytics, and accelerated with NVIDIA technologies. Eight of the world’s top 10 supercomputers now use NVIDIA GPUs, InfiniBand networking or both. They include the most powerful systems in the U.S., Europe and China. NVIDIA, now combined Read article >

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NVIDIA Shatters Big Data Analytics Benchmark

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NVIDIA just outperformed by nearly 20x the record for running the standard big data analytics benchmark, known as TPCx-BB. Using the RAPIDS suite of open-source data science software libraries powered by 16 NVIDIA DGX A100 systems, NVIDIA ran the benchmark in just 14.5 minutes, versus the current leading result of 4.7 hours on a CPU Read article >

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Insights Expedited: AI Inference Expands Its Scope and Speed

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AI is spreading from agriculture to X-rays thanks to its uncanny ability to quickly infer smart choices based on mounds of data. As the datasets and the neural networks analyzing them grow, users are increasingly turning to NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate AI inference. To see inference at work, just look under the hood of widely Read article >

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Digital Doubleheader: HPC Ignites Dual Online Events in June

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Two virtual events this month aim to drive scientific computing forward, inspired in no small part by the race against the coronavirus. The ISC High Performance 2020 Digital (June 22-25) and NVIDIA’s HPC Summit Digital (June 29-July 2) offer insights on the latest tools and techniques taking science and research into the next  era of Read article >

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Amped Up: HPC Centers Ride A100 GPUs to Accelerate Science

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Six supercomputer centers around the world are among the first to adopt the NVIDIA Ampere architecture. They’ll use it to bring science into the exascale era in fields from astrophysics to virus microbiology. The high performance computing centers scattered across the U.S. and Germany will use a total of nearly 13,000 A100 GPUs. Together these Read article >

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Artemis Supercomputer on the Hunt for Deeper Understanding of Genomics

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Ever wondered what you’re really made of? Your genome is a unique genetic code that determines your characteristics. It’s a specific combination of DNA molecules that makes you you. Studying the entire genetic code of an individual or a group of individuals can help us gain a better understanding of diseases, enable precision medicine and Read article >

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Word Power: Conversational AI Rewrites the Textbook on Success

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When startup Kensho was acquired by S&P Global for $550 million in March 2018, Georg Kucsko felt like a kid in a candy store. The head of AI research at Kensho and his team had one of Willy Wonka’s golden tickets dropped into their laps: S&P’s 100,000 hours of recorded and painstakingly transcribed audio files. Read article >

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How RDMA Became the Fuel for Fast Networks

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Two chance encounters propelled remote direct memory access from a good but obscure idea for fast networks into the jet fuel for the world’s more powerful supercomputers. The lucky breaks launched the fortunes of an Israel-based startup that staked its fortunes on InfiniBand, a network based on RDMA. Later, that startup, Mellanox Technologies, helped steer Read article >

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Seeing AI to AI: NVIDIA Deepens Ties with Top Research Center

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Andreas Dengel wants to get AI into more people’s hands while he continues to advance the technology. Sharing that mission and a history of close ties, NVIDIA just joined him and his roughly 1,000 colleagues as a shareholder in the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). “A study last week said many companies are Read article >

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Researchers Make Movies of the Brain with CUDA

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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 your work, the biomedical engineering Ph.D. told them. Yet it was true. The handful of researchers at Cambridge Consultants had devised a basket of techniques Read article >

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