Drug discovery is like searching for the right jigsaw tile — in a puzzle box with 1060 molecular-size pieces. AI and HPC tools help researchers more quickly narrow down the options, like picking out a subset of correctly shaped and colored puzzle pieces to experiment with. An effective small-molecule drug will bind to a target Read article >

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Back to school was destined to look different this year. With the world adapting to COVID-19, safety measures are preventing a return to in-person teaching in many places. Also, students learning through conventional video conferencing systems often feel the content is difficult to read, or teachers block the words written on presentation boards. Faced with Read article >

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You may have never heard of Pat Hanrahan, but you have almost certainly seen his work. His list of credits includes three Academy Awards, and his work on Pixar’s RenderMan rendering technology enabled Hollywood megahits Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Cars and Jurassic Park. Hanrahan also founded Tableau Software — snatched up by Salesforce last year Read article >

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A new supercomputer under construction is designed to tackle some of the planet’s toughest life sciences challenges by speedily crunching vast quantities of environmental data. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, or JAMSTEC, has commissioned tech giant NEC to build the fourth generation of its Earth Simulator. The new system, scheduled to become Read article >

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Jeff Herbst is a fixture of the AI startup ecosystem. Which makes sense since he’s the VP of business development at NVIDIA and head of NVIDIA Inception, a virtual accelerator that currently has over 6,000 members in a wide range of industries. Ahead of the GPU Technology Conference, taking place Oct. 5-9, Herbst joined AI Read article >

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When it comes to autonomous vehicle simulation testing, every detail must be on point. With its high-fidelity automotive simulation model (ASM) on NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, global automotive supplier dSPACE is helping developers keep virtual self-driving true to the real world. By combining the modularity and openness of the DRIVE Sim simulation software platform with highly Read article >

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Paul Edwards is helping carry the age-old business of giving loans into the modern era of AI. Edwards started his career modeling animal behavior as a Ph.D. in numerical ecology. He left his lab coat behind to lead a group of data scientists at Scotiabank, based in Toronto, exploring how machine learning can improve predictions Read article >

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Eliu Huerta is harnessing AI and high performance computing (HPC) to observe the cosmos more clearly. For several years, the astrophysics researcher has been chipping away at a grand challenge, using data to detect signals produced by collisions of black holes and neutron stars. If his next big design for a neural network is successful, Read article >

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One of the leading EV startups in China is charging up its compute capabilities. Li Auto announced today it would develop its next generation of electric vehicles using the high-performance, energy-efficient NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin. These new vehicles will be developed in collaboration with tier 1 supplier Desay SV and feature advanced autonomous driving features, Read article >

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Humans are wielding AI to create art, and a virtual exhibit that’s part of NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference showcases the stunning results. The AI Art Gallery at NVIDIA GTC features pieces by a broad collection of artists, developers and researchers from around the world who are using AI to push the limits of artistic expression. Read article >

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AI is reshaping markets in extraordinary ways. Soon, every company will be in AI, and will need both speed and scale to power increasingly complex machine learning models. Accelerating innovation for enterprises around the world, Oracle today announced general availability of bare-metal Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances featuring the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU. NVIDIA founder Read article >

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STEM is dope. That’s the simple message that Justin “Mr. Fascinate” Shaifer evangelizes to young people around the world. Through social media and other platforms, Shaifer fascinates children with STEM projects — including those that can be created using AI with NVIDIA Jetson products — in hopes that more students from underrepresented groups will be Read article >

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Healthcare is under the microscope this year like never before. Hospitals are being asked to do more with less, and researchers are working around the clock to answer pressing questions. NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference brings everything you need to know about the future of AI and HPC in healthcare together in one place. Innovators across Read article >

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Reviewers have just finished testing NVIDIA’s new flagship GPU — the NVIDIA RTX 3080 — and the raves are rolling in. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang promised “a giant step into the future,” when he revealed NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs on Sept. 1. The NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture, introduced in May, has already stormed Read article >

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It could be just a fender bender or an unforeseen rain shower, but a few seconds of disruption can translate to extra minutes or even hours of mind-numbing highway traffic. But how much of this congestion could be avoided with AI at the wheel? That’s what the Contra Costa Transportation Authority is working to determine Read article >

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Christian Sanz isn’t above trying disguises to sneak into places. He once put on a hard hat, vest and steel-toed boots to get onto the construction site of the San Francisco 49ers football stadium to explore applications for his drone startup. That bold move scored his first deal. For the entrepreneur who popularized drones in Read article >

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Artificial intelligence is the most powerful technology force of our time.  It is the automation of automation, where software writes software. While AI began in the data center, it is moving quickly to the edge — to stores, warehouses, hospitals, streets, and airports, where smart sensors connected to AI computers can speed checkouts, direct forklifts, Read article >

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NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang sent the following letter to NVIDIA employees today: Hi everyone,  Today, we announced that we have signed a definitive agreement to purchase Arm.  Thirty years ago, a visionary team of computer scientists in Cambridge, U.K., invented a new CPU architecture optimized for energy-efficiency and a licensing business model that Read article >

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NVIDIA Research comprises more than 200 scientists around the world driving innovation across a range of industries. One of its central figures is David Luebke, who founded the team in 2006 and is now the company’s vice president of graphics research. Luebke spoke with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about what he’s working on. He’s Read article >

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