Props to team top flops. Virtual this year, the SC20 Student Cluster Competition was still all about teams vying for top supercomputing performance in the annual battle for HPC bragging rights. That honor went to Beijing-based Tsinghua University, whose six-member undergraduate student team clocked in 300 teraflops of processing performance. A one teraflop computer can Read article >

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As the healthcare world battles the pandemic, the medical-imaging field is gaining ground with AI, forging new partnerships and funding startup innovation. It will all be on display at RSNA, the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting, taking place Nov. 29 - Dec. 5. Radiologists, healthcare organizations, developers and instrument makers at RSNA will Read article >

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Seven finalists including both winners of the 2020 Gordon Bell awards used supercomputers to see more clearly atoms, stars and more — all accelerated with NVIDIA technologies. Their efforts required the traditional number crunching of high performance computing, the latest data science in graph analytics, AI techniques like deep learning or combinations of all of Read article >

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In the global race to tame the spread of COVID-19, scientific researchers and pharmaceutical companies first must understand the virus’s protein structure. Doing so requires building detailed 3D models of protein molecules, which until recently has been an intensely time-consuming task. Structura Biotechnology’s groundbreaking software is helping speed things along. The GPU-powered machine learning algorithms Read article >

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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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GeForce NOW transforms underpowered or incompatible hardware into high-performance GeForce gaming rigs. Now, we’re bringing the world of PC gaming to iOS devices through Safari. GeForce NOW is streaming on iOS Safari, in beta, starting today. That means more than 5 million GeForce NOW members can now access the latest experience by launching Safari from Read article >

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Concept art is often considered the bread and butter of filmmaking, and Ryan Church is the concept design supervisor that’s behind the visuals of many of our favorite films. Church has created concept art for blockbusters such as Avatar, Tomorrowland and Transformers. He’s collaborated closely with George Lucas on the Star Wars prequels and sequels Read article >

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5G networks are poised to transform the healthcare industry, starting with how medical students learn. The Grid Factory, a U.K.-based provider of NVIDIA GPU-accelerated services, is partnering with telecommunications company Vodafone to showcase the potential of 5G technology with a network built at Coventry University. Operating NVIDIA CloudXR on the private 5G network, student nurses Read article >

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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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Supercomputing centers worldwide are onboarding NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture to serve the growing demands of heftier AI models for everything from drug discovery to energy research. Joining this movement, Fujitsu has announced a new exascale system for Japan-based AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI), offering 600 petaflops of performance at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Read article >

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The world’s fastest supercomputers aren’t just faster than ever. They’re smarter and support a greater variety of workloads, too. Nearly 70 percent of the machines, including eight of the top 10, on the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, released today at SC20, are powered by NVIDIA technology. In addition, four of the Read article >

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No traveling for work? No problem — at least not for character concept artist Furio Tedeschi. Tedeschi has worked on films like Transformers and Bumblebee: The Movie, as well as games like Mass Effect: Andromeda from Bioware. Currently, he’s working on the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 video game. No stranger to working while traveling, Tedeschi often Read article >

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From its entry-level vehicles to premium ones, Hyundai Motor Group will deliver the latest in AI-powered convenience and safety to every new customer. The leading global auto group, which produces more than 7 million vehicles a year, announced today that every Hyundai, Kia and Genesis model will include infotainment systems powered by NVIDIA DRIVE, with Read article >

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Texas A&M University is turbocharging the research of its scientists and engineers with a new supercomputer powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. The Grace supercomputer — named to honor programming pioneer Grace Hopper — handles almost 20 times the processing of its predecessor, Ada. Texas A&M’s Grace supercomputing cluster comes as user demand at Read article >

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