NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced NVIDIA's latest GPU, the Titan X, in a surprise appearance at the 2015 Game Developers Conference. Jen-Hsun claims it is the most powerful GPU on the planet. The announcement followed a presentation by Epic Games' co-founder Tim Sweeney about the convergence of photorealistic imagery, film, video games, architecture, industrial design, and … [Read more...]
$199 Tegra X1 NVIDIA Shield Console Supports 4K TV
NVIDIA announced the Tegra X1 based Shield console that will be available in May. Customers can be notified for ordering via the bottom right "notify me" icon here. The device contains 3GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage along with a microSD slot, two USB 3.0 ports, and Bluetooth. Included is a gigabit Ethernet port and 2 x 2 802.11ac … [Read more...]
Root Your Nvidia SHIELD Tablet Effortlessly
XDAdevelopers shows how to root your NVIDIA Shield effortlessly: http://youtu.be/_8O-oXYzB8g … [Read more...]
Rumor – Tegra X1 Powered Shield Tablet Announcement in March 2015
Rumors are circulating that the Tegra X1 powered update to the NVIDIA Shield Tablet will be announced at the GPU technology conference scheduled for March 17th or possibly earlier. Indications are the screen size will stay the same, but that appears to be the only leaked information. This is great news, along with the fact that Ubuntu 14.10 now runs on the Tegra K1 powered … [Read more...]
Guide to Get Ubuntu 14.10 Running Natively on Nvidia Shield Tablet
The XDA forum developer Bogdacutu reports they have Ubuntu 14.10 running on an NVIDIA Shield Tablet and have provided a guide so others can also get Ubuntu running on their Shield tablets. This is wonderful news and brings hope that Ubuntu will soon be running on the rumored Tegra X1 refresh of the Shield Tablet. What works: GPU acceleration (OpenGL … [Read more...]
Kriging Interpolation Exhibits Strong Scaling Across GPUs
Geostatistical interpolation (Kriging) can be useful in a great number of applications where high fidelity models are required for mapping spatial effects and making predictions based on observations. It is widely utilized in the domain of spatial analysis and computer experiments and heavily used by the US Air Force and GIS services. The following images by Yang, et. al. … [Read more...]
Biadu Small NVIDIA-Powered Cluster for ‘Most Accurate’ Near Human ImageNet Recognition Results
Baidu Research utilized a small 36-node NVIDIA-powered cluster to attain the best computer vision ImageNet classification result to date with a 5.98% error vs. GoogleNet's 6.66%. These results are very close to the human error rate of 5.1%. Key to the Baidu performance is their mix of model- and data-parallelism as well as the use of higher-resolution images (512x512 vs … [Read more...]
CUDA 7 For Registered Developers – LAPACK Dense Solvers 3-6x faster than MKL
The CUDA Toolkit 7.0 Release Candidate (RC) is now available to members of NVIDIA’s free registered developer program. Especially interesting is the claim of 3-6x faster LAPACK dense solvers over MKL (The Intel Math Kernel Library). C++11 support makes it easier for C++ developers to accelerate their applications Write less code with ‘auto’ and ‘lambda’, especially when … [Read more...]
NVIDIA 32GB Shield LTE Holiday Bundle With Lots of Games
Good Dec. 20 12:01am PST – Dec. 24 11:59pm PST only, NVIDIA is offering a 32GB Shield LTE Holiday Bundle with Half-Life Episode, Half-Life 2, and Portal plus a host of games on the NVIDIA Grid on-demand game streaming service through the end of June 2015: Astebreed Alan Wake American Nightmare Batman: Arkham Asylum Batman: Arkham City Batman: Arkham … [Read more...]
Late-Breaking NVIDIA Call For GTC 2015 Posters Opens
NVIDIA has opened a call for late-breaking posters for GTC 2015. This call is specifically designed to let bring the results hot-off-the-press results to GTC. Submissions can be made here. The call closes Monday January 12, 2015. Poster Criteria The purpose of your poster is to convey to a wide audience a research project's significance to scholars in the field and its … [Read more...]