Anything But Pedestrian: How GPU-Powered Brains Can Help Cars Keep People Safe
Today’s crowded urban centers are, more than ever, a mine field for drivers. It’s not just that there are more pedestrians on the streets; many of them are staring at or talking on their mobile devices...
View ArticleHow Cosmic Rays and GPUs Can Help Detect Concealed Nukes
Building from groundbreaking work by Los Alamos National Laboratory, researchers at Decisions Sciences are tapping the invisible cosmic rays passing through us to detect threats that we can’t...
View ArticleWhy Your Doctor May Someday Prescribe Playing Video Games
And you thought his music was trippy.Thousands of attendees at our annual GPU Technology Conference had the opportunity to dive inside Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart’s brain. The tour of Hart’s...
View ArticleFive Hot Startups Receive ‘One to Watch’ Awards at Emerging Companies Summit
In front of an audience of 150 VCs, bankers, and members of the GPU ecosystem, NVIDIA this week awarded its coveted “One to Watch” awards to the five most promising startups from a field of three dozen...
View ArticleResearchers Win Third Annual CUDA Achievement Award; Three New CUDA Fellows...
Researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign snagged the Third Annual Achievement Award for CUDA Centers of Excellence, for their research with Fighting HIV with CUDA.The team was among...
View ArticleMore Than Skating By: How GPUs Help Vans Shoes Stay Fleet of Feet
It’s official. You can’t get around on planet Earth without the help of GPUs.Not only are sleek sports cars, fast trains, and hypersonic planes designed with the help of powerful graphics cards. Even...
View ArticleAudio Pioneer Dolby Wants to Change the Way You Look at Movies
Long known as an audio innovator, Dolby Labs wants to revolutionize how you look at movies and TV.The company has been working on displays that feature so-called “extended dynamic range,” or EDR, which...
View ArticleMatter Matters: Understanding Anti-Matter With the Help of GPUs
Does antimatter fall to Earth the same way matter does? This question has long perplexed scientists due to antimatter’s rarity, and its tendency to annihilate upon impact with matter.Thanks to advances...
View ArticleNVIDIA and VMware Leading the Way to Make Advanced 3D Desktops Available for All
I want to take this opportunity to congratulate our partners at NVIDIA on a great GTC Conference last week in San Jose, California. A tremendous amount of news was announced at the show that...
View ArticleNew Drivers, New GeForce Experience, New SHIELD Software Upgrade Just Released
In our ongoing effort to provide an unmatched gaming experience, today we’re releasing new drivers that build on the DirectX11 industry standard to offer dramatically enhanced performance, a version of...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Meets Detroit: NVIDIA and Tesla Recognized at Auto...
They may have wheels, but when it comes to delivering the latest apps, cars couldn’t keep up with smartphones. Until now.In the latest example of how Silicon Valley and the auto industry are...
View ArticleCan You Save the World with GPUs? $150,000 to Help Us Find Out
We’re not going to tell you how to save the world. We are, however, going to recommend you use GPUs to do it.We’re seeking submissions for our NVIDIA Global Impact Award, a $150,000 grant for research...
View Article‘Watch Dogs’ Trailer Offers Taste of Gaming’s Next Big Cultural...
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Game of Thrones. The NCAA Final Four basketball tournament.These are more than just events – they’re cultural touchstones. But as big as they are, videogames are bigger. More...
View ArticlePAX EAST: 5 Cool Ways to Game on the Tegra NOTE 7
Get your NVIDIA green on, New Englanders, and get ready for this weekend’s PAX East gaming festival in Boston.Among the things we’ll be showing off at the NVIDIA booth is the EVGA Tegra NOTE 7. This...
View ArticleTop Guns: How a Team of Elite NVIDIA Engineers Helps the Best Developers Get...
To the average gamer, “Navier Stokes” might sound like the suave, Bond-like main character from an espionage-oriented first-person shooter. Someone who’s as comfortable in a tuxedo as in a flak...
View ArticleGearing Up for CUDA 6, GTC 2014 Turned Focus to Developer Education
We’re always looking for new ways to make parallel programming easier and more accessible.In addition to enhancing the CUDA Toolkit with new performance and usability features, we also look for...
View ArticleAcing GPU U: NVIDIA Awards $25,000 Graduate Fellowships to Top PhD Students
We’re continuing a tradition of supporting graduate research in GPU computing with this year’s NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program.The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program awards $25,000 to Ph.D. students...
View ArticleBig Apple’s Auto Show Fortified with NVIDIA-Powered Audis, BMWs, Rolls
New Yorkers are a tough crowd. They demand the best food. They’re the most uncompromising fans in professional sports. They’ve got the roughest media. So if automakers are talking about the tech...
View ArticleFostering an Explosion of Innovation in the Data Center
This post from Sumit Gupta, our GM of accelerated computing, originally appeared on IBM’s Building a Smarter Planet blog.Last week, while on a road trip to southern California with my family, I had one...
View ArticleWith Great Power Comes Great Portability: Enter Tegra K1 CUDA Vision...
Attention enthusiasts, developers and makers. Are you working on a new embedded computing application?Meet the Jetson TK1 Developer Kit. It’s the world’s first mobile supercomputer for embedded...
View Article