Live: Jen-Hsun Huang Kicks Off NVIDIA’s 2015 GPU Technology Conference
11:12 – JHH thanks Elon and talks about how much work there is to do, and how committed NVIDIA is to do that. Elon strolls off stage as JHH calls him “the engineer’s engineer.” Things are winding down...
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View ArticleNVIDIA Propels Deep Learning with TITAN X, New DIGITS Training System and DevBox
Addressing one of today’s most sophisticated technology challenges, we just unveiled new hardware and software that bring unprecedented speed, ease and power to deep learning research. Deep learning –...
View ArticleTesla Motors CEO Elon Musk Says Future of Autonomous Cars is Nigh
When you’re preparing to launch a computing platform for self-driving cars, it helps to bring one of the leading voices in automotive innovation along for the ride. That’s just what NVIDIA CEO and...
View ArticleHow a Render Farm Squeezed Into an Apartment Brought to Life a World Ruled by...
Filmmakers flock each year to the GPU Technology Conference to share tales of how GPUs are transforming their art. The latest is from Kevin Margo, who talked at a breakout session about how the...
View ArticleHow SpaceX Is Using GPUs to Build a Better Mars Rocket
SpaceX, the other company led by Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, has an ambitious goal. It wants to put a human colony on Mars. If that sounds hard, it’s actually even harder to pull off. You don’t...
View ArticleHow One Scientist Wants to Use Drones and GPUs to Help Some of the World’s...
Some at this week’s GPU Technology Conference dream of building self-driving cars. Others want to build machines that can teach themselves to drive. Bingcai Zhang, a technical fellow with defense...
View ArticleOTOY Doubles Down on Its Virtual Reality Bet for Production-Ready Renders
OTOY Inc., a Los Angeles-based cloud graphics specialist, is doubling down on its bet on virtual reality. It’s a move that could help content creators focus on hyper-realistic images and move past the...
View ArticleVR Pioneer Parisi on How Faster GPUs are Accelerating Advances in Virtual...
Outsmarting charging dinosaurs, floating in space and slaying dragons can all be done safely in virtual reality. With the right gear, you can be fully immersed in the experience – really there,...
View ArticleHow Google Uses GPUs to Revolutionize Speech, Video, Image Recognition
That’s it, gamers. You’ve been replaced. Google has used a new technology called deep learning to build a machine that has mastered 50 classic Atari video games. And you’ve never seen Space Invaders...
View ArticleCold Storage: How GPUs Figure Into Delivering Payloads to the Moon
Talk about cold storage. By next year, it should be possible to send a payload to the moon for a cool $1.2 million a kilogram, thanks to work being done to help finance the race to drive a vehicle on...
View ArticleArtomatix – “a Painkiller and Vitamin for Artists” – Wins $100,000 at...
A year-old startup that promises to cut production costs for video games and movies, won the second annual $100,000 Early Stage Challenge, at NVIDIA’s Emerging Companies Summit Wednesday. Artomatix,...
View ArticleHow Pixar’s Animators Used GPUs to Create a Singing Volcano
Creating singing volcanoes isn’t, perhaps, a common use case for NVIDIA products. But in a packed session at the GPU Technology Conference, attendees learned that GPUs helped Pixar get the details...
View ArticleNVIDIA Brings Interactive, Physically Based Rendering to the Mainstream
Is it real or is it rendered? We’ve been teasing our social media followers for months now by posting stunning images and asking them if they can tell the difference between our computer-generated...
View ArticleWhat’s Cooking in Pro Graphics: How Real-Time Ray Tracing Can Avert a...
You know something’s awry when your building starts melting nearby cars. London’s year-old 20 Fenchurch Street tower is a stunner. But the same curved glass that gives the 37-story tower the nickname,...
View ArticleWomen@GTC Focus on Innovation, Inspiration and Roadmap for Inclusion
With diversity in high-tech one of the day’s hottest issues, this week’s GPU Technology Conference highlights how some women are beating the odds. Despite being highly under-represented in the field,...
View ArticleRiding the AI Rocket: Robots Won’t Kill Us, Says Top Artificial Intelligence...
Andrew Ng doesn’t think robots will kill us. But they might take our jobs. “Maybe in hundreds of years, technology will advance to a point where there could be a chance of evil killer robots,” said Ng,...
View ArticleSix Startups Split $650,000 in Prizes at Emerging Companies Summit
Six promising startups walked away with cash and prizes worth more than $650,000 at NVIDIA’s eighth annual Emerging Companies Summit. More than 50 startups participated in the competition, selected...
View ArticleHow GPUs Help Rescue Robots Find Their Way
Search and rescue ain’t what it used to be. Gone are the days of rescue teams and their dogs heading into dangerous situations not knowing what they’re going to face. Technology has transformed the art...
View ArticleHow GPU-Driven Drug Discovery is Finding New Targets to Cure Cancer
The race is on to understand how cell mutation causes cancer, which kills hundreds of thousands worldwide each year and is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. Setting the pace is Rommie...
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