NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang noted for the press at GTC 2018 that NVIDIA is now a platform company, not just a chip vendor. This message was clearly conveyed by the content of Jensen’s keynote that occupied two hours and spanned a number of topics from an NVlink hardware switch to the Xavier platform and self-driving cars. Succinctly, NVIDIA provided two new key hardware designs … [Read more...]
Oil and Gas Industry Progress Towards Faster, More Power Efficient Reservoir Simulation
Reservoir simulation is the single, most important calculation and Oil and Gas company can do. Attendees at the recent KAUST Global IT summit were told that armed guards are stationed inside the KAUST computer center when the ARAMCO simulation is running because the software is a state secret. The Oil and Gas Industry has been reporting heroic simulation sizes now range from … [Read more...]
NVIDIA’s Pascal GPUs spell the end of ‘offload mode is required’ for accelerators
Today at the 2016 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the first of a new line of Pascal architecture GPUs- the P100. Jen-Hsun noted that the P100 GPUs are in volume production now, but the initial production runs have already been purchased. Consumers should look to first run on the P100 GPUs in the cloud. While Jen-Hsun's keynote focused … [Read more...]
NVIDIA’s CEO Cuts to the Chase at SC15 about Accelerated Computing and Deep-learning
NVidia's President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang gave a short but very clear presentation in the NVidia booth at Supercomputing 2015 about accelerated computing and the impact of deep-learning. In short, look for HPC dominance and a technology transfer that will replace the browser and drive your car. "Moore's Law is utterly irrelevant" Huang said. With over $10 billion of … [Read more...]
SC15 – Accelerator Use in World’s Top Supercomputers
NVIDIA notes more than 100 accelerated systems now on TOP500 list TOP500 Highlights: One-third of FLOPS now powered by accelerators NVIDIA Tesla GPUs sweep 23 of 24 new accelerated supercomputers Tesla supercomputers growing at 48% CAGR over past five years AUSTIN, Texas—SC15—Nov. 16, 2015—Today’s list of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers shows the extent to which … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Oct. 20 Webinar – GPU Powered Advances in 4k Facial Recognition
New GPU technologies are fueling a dramatic growth in the use of video surveillance and video analytics around the globe. The emergence of ultra-high resolutions and massive video content calls for faster and more accurate ways to accelerate facial analysis. Register here for the October 20, 2015 webinar from 10am to 11am Pacific Time. By attending this webinar, you'll learn … [Read more...]
The First of NVIDIA’s Free OpenACC Courses is Online!
The first of NVIDIA's free online OpenACC course (Download / Stream, Slides,Q&A), lab (in C/C++ or Fortran), and online "office hours" (Download / Stream, Slides) is available to everyone! OpenACC is a programming approach designed to minimize developer effort while delivering performance portability on x86 CPUs and GPUs. The 8-week online OpenACC course described on … [Read more...]
Port Some CUDA Codes To Intel Xeon Phi Simply and Efficiently
This tutorial shows that it relatively easy to port many CUDA C/C++ source codes to OpenMP. In the past, such efforts were not generally considered worthwhile because of the large performance difference between multicore processors (that use OpenMP) and GPUs. The introduction of teraflop/s Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors eliminated that performance difference, which makes it much … [Read more...]
GTC 2015 GPU Computing Videos and Slides Now Available Online
NVIDIA has released the pdf slides and session video recordings from GTC 2015 at http://www.gputechconf.com/attend/sessions. The sessions covered a diverse range of topics: Astronomy & Astrophysics Augmented & Virtual Reality Automotive Big Data Analytics Computational Physics Computer Vision Cloud Computing & HPC Developer – … [Read more...]
NVIDIA GTC 2015 keynote – Near-term Roadmap is Deep-Learning
The GTC 2015 Keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed an intense focus on Deep-Learning through four topic areas: (1) The official Titan X GPU announcement that noted the 7 TF/s SP and 0.2 TF/s DP device has an excellent arithmetic performance mix for deep-learning, (2) The NVIDIA DIGITS (Deep GPU Training System for Data Scientists) software and custom NVIDIA built … [Read more...]