NVIDIA Volta GPUs Power the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) today announced Summit as the world’s most powerful supercomputer … Read more
Category Archives: Accelerated Computing
University of Sydney Unveils a New GPU-accelerated Supercomputer to Fuel AI Research
The University of Sydney recently installed a new GPU-accelerated supercomputer called Artemis 3 to further the university’s artificial intelligence research in the areas of geophysics, cosmology, genomics, proteomics, economics, transport logistics, and medical imaging … Read more
New Physics Research Aims to Answer the Mysteries of the Universe
Physicists from more than a dozen institutions used the power of the GPU-accelerated Titan Supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to calculate a subatomic-scale physics problem of measuring the lifetime of neutrons … Read more
Evaluating the Performance of OpenACC in GCC
A new blog details the history of the OpenACC GCC implementation, its availability, and enhancements to OpenACC support in GCC. You will also learn about a recent project to assess and improve the performance of codes compiled with GCC’s OpenACC support … Read more
GPU-accelerated Supercomputer Helps Automatically Detect Skin Cancer
Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia are using GPU-accelerated supercomputers and deep learning to diagnose skin cancer from histology slides with the same accuracy as a trained pathologist. … Read more
CUDA 9.2 Now Available
CUDA 9.2 includes updates to libraries, a new library for accelerating custom linear-algebra algorithms, and lower kernel launch latency … Read more
Improving Biomolecular Design with GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers
For the first time ever, chemists from the University of California, San Diego designed a two-dimensional protein crystal simulation that toggles between states of varying porosity and density. The research could help scientists create new materials for water purification, renewable energy, breakthroughs in medicine, drug development, and many more possible applications. The work of combining … Read more
Improving Cancer Treatment with GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers
Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Institute in Houston, Texas developed a deep learning process that automatically identifies the precise size and location of tumors and determines how much radiation should be administered … Read more
GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers Aid Researchers Working to Stop the Dengue Virus
Using supercomputers equipped with NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, a team of researchers at Colorado State University have identified a critical protein structure in the dengue virus that could potentially prevent the replication of the diseas … Read more
Belgium Supercomputer Installed to Further AI Research
Research university KU Leuven in Belgium just installed a new Hewlett Packard Enterprise supercomputer equipped with NVIDIA GPUs, to further the university’s deep learning researc … Read more