Using PhysX for Vehicle Simulations in Games
Learn how NVIDIA PhysX 4.1 is now being used for self-driving car training. … Read more
Tag Archives: Physics
Google’s Tossingbot Can Toss Over 500 Objects Per Hour Into Target Locations
Researchers from Google, Princeton, Columbia and MIT developed a picking robot using physics and deep learning that can accurately toss random objects into bins two times faster than previous systems. … Read more
NVIDIA Sponsors “Learning to Run” AI Competition at NIPS 2017
Participants in the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference “Learning to Run” competition are vying for the chance to win an NVIDIA DGX Station, the fastest personal supercomputer for researchers and data scientists. … Read more
Share Your Science: Earthquake Simulations at Extreme Scale
Phil Maechling, a computer scientist at USC’s Southern California Earthquake Center shares how they are using the Tesla GPU-accelerated Titan and Blue Waters supercomputers with CUDA to analyze the impact of earthquakes and why and when they occur. … Read more
Share Your Science: GPUs Help Provide Insight on the Secrets of Solar Wind
Shahab Fatemi, PhD Fellow at the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, shares how his team is using CUDA, TITAN X and Tesla K80 GPUs to develop a three-dimensional plasma model that can provide a better understanding of how solar wind could affect Earth. … Read more
GPU-Accelerated PC Solves Complex Problems Hundreds of Times Faster Than Massive CPU-only Supercomputers
Russian scientists from Lomonosov Moscow State University used an ordinary GPU-accelerated desktop computer to solve complex quantum mechanics equations in just 15 minutes that would typically take two to three days on a … Read more
Scientists Gather at University of Delaware for OpenACC Hackathon
Oak Ridge National Lab, NVIDIA and PGI launched the OpenACC Hackathon initiative last year to help scientists accelerate applications on GPUs. OpenACC was selected as a primary tool since it offers acceleration without significant programming effort and works great with existing application codes. … Read more
GPU-Accelerated Model Reveals Details of Nuclear Fission
Scientists from University of Washington, Warsaw University of Technology in Poland, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, have developed a model that provides a detailed look at what happens during the last stages of the fission process. … Read more
Share Your Science: Accelerating Digital Rock Physics with GPUs
James McClure, a Computational Scientist with Advanced Research Computing at Virginia Tech describes how they are using the NVIDIA Tesla GPU-accelerated Titan Supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Their project involves mathematical models combined with 3D visualization to provide insight on how fluids move below the surface of the earth. This can ultimately be used […] … Read more
GPU-Accelerated Supercomputer Targets Tumors
A team of researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) research lab in Germany are using the Titan Supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance laser-driven radiation treatment of cancerous tumors. … Read more