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
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AI Helps Seismologists Identify Earthquakes
Researchers at MIT and Harvard University recently published a study outlining how deep learning is helping seismologists detect earthquakes that might have otherwise been missed. … Read more
Oil Giant Launches Supercomputer to Analyze Subsoil Data
The Italian multinational oil giant Eni deployed a 18.6 petaflops GPU-accelerated supercomputer, making it the most powerful industrial system in the world. … Read more
AI Drones Help Inspect Industrial Equipment
Avita Systems, a GE Venture, turned to NVIDIA DGX Systems to enable advanced robotic inspection and automated defect recognition services across the oil and gas, transportation, and energy industries. … Read more
GPUs and Deep Learning Could Help Control Robots in Space
A six-person startup from Seattle developed augmented telerobotics software that gives humans better control of remotely operated robots which can be useful for exploring Mars or other planets. … Read more
Automatically Detect Nuclear Power Plant Cracks With Deep Learning
Researchers from Purdue University developed a deep learning-based system to automatically detect cracks in the steel components of nuclear power plants and has been shown to be more accurate than other automated systems. … Read more
Share Your Science: Using Deep Learning to Automatically Detect Geophysical Features
Chiyuan Zhang, PhD student at MIT talks about his joint project with Shell using GPUs and deep learning to automatically detect subsurface faults from seismic traces for oil and gas exploration. … Read more
Facial Recognition Software Helping Caterpillar Identify Sleepy Operators
Operator fatigue can potentially be a fatal problem for Caterpillar employees driving the massive mine trucks on long, repetitive shifts throughout the night. Caterpillar recognized this and joined forces with Seeing Machines to install their fatigue detection software in … Read more
12 Startups Vying for $100,000 at GPU Technology Conference
Each startup will be given four minutes to present their GPU-accelerated tech and business plan live on stage to an audience of technology executives. The challenge is designed for startups in the GPU ecosystem that have raised less than $1 million in seed funding and are ready to expand their visibility and demonstrate their … Read more
Share Your Science: Accelerating Oil Discovery with GPUs
Thor Johnsen, an HPC Expert at Chevron, talks about how they are using NVIDIA GPUs for seismic imaging and modeling of the subsurface of the earth to create detailed 3D maps used to identify locations for oil drilling. … Read more