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NVIDIA Teams With Google Quantum AI, IBM and Other Leaders to Speed Research in Quantum Computing

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It takes a village to nurture an emerging technology, so NVIDIA is collaborating with Google Quantum AI, IBM and others to take quantum computing to the next level. Quantum computing offers the promise of solving previously unsolvable problems in fields like drug development, climate research, machine learning and finance. The potential is great, but so Read article >

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NVIDIA Sets World Record for Quantum Computing Simulation With cuQuantum Running on DGX SuperPOD

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In the emerging world of quantum computing, we just broke a record with big impact, and we’re making our software available so anyone can do this work. Quantum computing will propel a new wave of advances in climate research, drug discovery, finance and more. By simulating tomorrow’s quantum computers on today’s classical systems, researchers can Read article >

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What Is Accelerated Computing?

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Accelerated computing is humming in the background, making life better even on a quiet night at home. It prevents credit card fraud when you buy a movie to stream. It recommends a dinner you might like and arranges a fast delivery. Maybe it even helped the movie’s director win an Oscar for stunning visuals. So, Read article >

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Superclouds: AI, Cloud-Native Supercomputers Sail into the TOP500​

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NVIDIA technologies power 342 systems on the TOP500 list released at the ISC High Performance event today, including 70 percent of all new systems and eight of the top 10. The latest ranking of the world’s most powerful systems shows high performance computing centers are increasingly adopting AI. It also demonstrates that users continue to Read article >

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COVID-19 Spurs Scientific Revolution in Drug Discovery with AI

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Research across global academic and commercial labs to create a more efficient drug discovery process won recognition today with a special Gordon Bell Prize for work fighting COVID-19. A team of 27 researchers led by Rommie Amaro at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) combined high performance computing (HPC) and AI to provide Read article >

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NVIDIA, Ampere Computing Raise Arm 26x in Supercomputing

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In the past 18 months, researchers have witnessed a whopping 25.5x performance boost for Arm-based platforms in high performance computing, thanks to the combined efforts of the Arm and NVIDIA ecosystems. Many engineers deserve a round of applause for the gains. The Arm Neoverse N1 core gave systems-on-a-chip like Ampere Computing’s Altra an estimated 2.3x Read article >

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AI Draws World’s Smallest Wanted Posters to Apprehend COVID

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Using AI and a supercomputer simulation, Ken Dill’s team drew the equivalent of wanted posters for a gang of proteins that make up COVID-19. With a little luck, one of their portraits could identify a way to arrest the coronavirus with a drug. When the pandemic hit, “it was terrible for the world, and a 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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Gut Instinct: Human Microbiome May Reveal COVID-19 Mysteries

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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 was about to have made by the tens of thousands could be repurposed to help understand the novel coronavirus that causes the disease. McDonald is Read article >

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Engage Warp Drive: Innovation Awaits at the HPC Summit

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Every so often the scientists, researchers and engineers in high performance computing get a chance to take their work to the next level.  The HPC Summit, taking place March 25-26 in San Jose, is the community’s latest opportunity for a strategic refresh. Speakers from across the HPC community will share their work driving science and Read article >

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Approximate Hardware Design and Bigger Bitcoin Mining Profits

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Mining a block is difficult. The SHA-256 hash of the block header must be less than/equal to the target for the block to be accepted. The inherent probability of performing the tasks that yield the correct hash is very low. Research led by Dr. Rakesh Kumar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign addresses how […]

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