Editor’s note: This is one of a series of five posts profiling finalists for NVIDIA’s 2015 Global Impact Award, which provides $150,000 to researchers using NVIDIA technology for groundbreaking work that addresses social, humanitarian and environmental problems. Bit by bit, Erez Lieberman Aiden is unfolding the genome. It’s not easy. Tightly folded inside the nucleus… Read More

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Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Gehry. Frank, the contractor, working on your remodel. Wright’s landmark Fallingwater modernist home, Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao post-modern museum and your modern-ish kitchen upgrade all started out as blueprints. Drawing such plans is just a way of “thinking aloud” for Gehry, the architect renowned for his distinctive curves and swooshing lines. While… Read More

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“Location, location, location” is the real estate mantra. When it comes to building-site selection, city evacuation planning or extracting natural resources, location is critical indeed. To analyze location data, engineers, scientists, planners and developers rely on ArcGIS Pro software, from ESRI. Geographic information system (GIS) software uses large data sets, especially for imagery and elevation… Read More

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As a member of NVIDIA’s gaming team, I get to see lots of games early. Sometimes I see a game early and get super excited.  I play shooters. And I only play multiplayer. Unreal Tournament, Quake, Call of Duty, Left 4 Dead and the Battlefield games have all reigned on my play list. Evolve is the… Read More

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In the wake of Super Bowl XLIX, thousands of football fans have filtered out of Phoenix, Ariz. Taking their place are more than 5,000 computer-aided design (CAD) software users looking to perfect their game. The big event: Dassault Systèmes’ SOLIDWORKS World annual user conference, being held at the Phoenix Convention Center, from Feb 8-11. Attendees… Read More

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Life is full of trade-offs. In the world of virtualization, enterprises have faced what I call a “trade-off of extremes” when it comes to graphics. They could choose either GPU sharing or dedicated GPUs, and both have advantages and disadvantages. With GPU sharing, you get the economic benefits of shared hardware to many users. But… Read More

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We designed the new Tesla K80 dual-GPU accelerator to push the limits in performance and functionality. With dual GPUs, it has 2x the performance and double the memory of its predecessor. It’s 10x faster than the fastest CPUs. Plus, its enhanced NVIDIA GPU Boost technology (PDF 344 KB) dynamically extracts maximum performance from all applications… Read More

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