After years in the making, Nvidia on Monday unveiled "Grace," an Arm-based CPU for the data center. The processor was one of several announcements delivered on Day One of Nvidia's Graphics Technology Conference (GTC) 2021, where the chipmaker will lay out its plans to advance accelerated computing. Along with Grace, Nvidia announced a next-generation data processing unit, new enterprise GPUs, a new autonomous driving SOC, a new cybersecurity application framework, a new SDK to speed up quantum circuit simulations and more. GTC is all virtual this year, running Monday through Friday, giving Nvidia ample time to highlight its several product innovations. Nvidia has played a key role in advancing AI via GPUs, but its grander ambitions are no secret: In September, the company announced its intent to acquire chip IP vendor Arm for $40 billion. "Leading-edge AI and data science are pushing today's computer architecture beyond its limits –processing unthinkable amounts of data," Nvidia … [Read more...] about Everything announced at Nvidia’s GTC 2021: A data center CPU, SDK for quantum simulations and more
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XAI Explained at GTC: Wells Fargo Examines Explainable AI for Modeling Lending Risk
Applying for a home mortgage can resemble a part-time job. But whether consumers are seeking out a home loan, car loan or credit card, there’s an incredible amount of work going on behind the scenes in a bank’s decision — especially if it has to say no. To comply with an alphabet soup of financial regulations, banks and mortgage lenders have to keep pace with explaining the reasons for rejections to both applicants and regulators. Busy in this domain, Wells Fargo will present at NVIDIA GTC21 this week some of its latest development work behind this complex decision-making using AI models accelerated by GPUs. To inform their decisions, lenders have historically applied linear and non-linear regression models for financial forecasting and logistic and survivability models for default risk. These simple, decades-old methods are easy to explain to customers. But machine learning and deep learning models are reinventing risk forecasting and in the process requiring explainable AI, … [Read more...] about XAI Explained at GTC: Wells Fargo Examines Explainable AI for Modeling Lending Risk
NVIDIA Advances Extended Reality, Unlocks New Possibilities for Companies Across Industries
NVIDIA technology has been behind some of the world’s most stunning virtual reality experiences. Each new generation of GPUs has raised the bar for VR environments, producing interactive experiences with photorealistic details to bring new levels of productivity, collaboration and fun. And with each GTC , we’ve introduced new technologies and software development kits that help developers create extended reality (XR) content and experiences that are more immersive and delightful than ever. From tetherless streaming with NVIDIA CloudXR to collaborating in a virtual world with NVIDIA Omniverse , our latest technologies are powering the next generation of XR. This year at GTC, NVIDIA announced a new release for CloudXR that adds support for iOS. We also had announcements with leading cloud service providers to deliver high-quality XR streaming from the cloud. And we released a new version of Variable Rate Supersampling to improve visual performance. Bringing High … [Read more...] about NVIDIA Advances Extended Reality, Unlocks New Possibilities for Companies Across Industries
NVIDIA, BMW Blend Reality, Virtual Worlds to Demonstrate Factory of the Future
The factories of the future will have a soul — a “digital twin” that blends man and machine in stunning new ways. In a demo blending reality and virtual reality, robotics and AI, to manage one of BMW’s automotive factories, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Monday rolled out a stunning vision of the future of manufacturing. “We are working with BMW to create a future factory,” Huang announced during his keynote address at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference before giving his audience a look. The demo highlights the general availability of NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, the first technology platform enabling global 3D design teams to work together simultaneously across multiple software suites in a shared virtual space. The AI factory demo brings a full suite of NVIDIA technologies on Omniverse, including the NVIDIA Isaac platform for robotics, the NVIDIA EGX edge computing platform and the NVIDIA Aerial software development kit, which brings GPU-accelerated, software-defined 5G wireless … [Read more...] about NVIDIA, BMW Blend Reality, Virtual Worlds to Demonstrate Factory of the Future
Secure AI Data Centers at Scale: Next-Gen DGX SuperPOD Opens Era of Cloud-Native Supercomputing
As businesses extend the power of AI and data science to every developer, IT needs to deliver seamless, scalable access to supercomputing with cloud-like simplicity and security. At GTC21 , we introduced the latest NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD , which gives business, IT and their users a platform for securing and scaling AI across the enterprise, with the necessary software to manage it as well as a white-glove services experience to help operationalize it. Solving AI Challenges of Every Size, at Massive Scale Since its introduction, DGX SuperPOD has enabled enterprises to scale their development on infrastructure that can tackle problems of a size and complexity that were previously unsolvable in a reasonable amount of time. It’s AI infrastructure built and managed the way NVIDIA does its own. As AI gets infused into almost every aspect of modern business, the need to deliver almost limitless access to computational resources powering development has been scaling exponentially. … [Read more...] about Secure AI Data Centers at Scale: Next-Gen DGX SuperPOD Opens Era of Cloud-Native Supercomputing