Items tagged with gtc2016

by Dave Altavilla, Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 06, 2016

IBM's Watson Cognitive AI Platform Evolves, Senses Feelings And Dances Gangnam Style At NVIDIA GTC

Artificial Intelligence is sort of the holy grail of computing, and while we may never reproduce the human brain or it's capabilities in their entirety in electronic form, the world's brightest minds are now capable of creating rather convincing systems that are beginning to learn more sophisticated concepts and even... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla, Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Apr 06, 2016

NVIDIA Tesla P100 Module, DGX-1 Supercomputer And QuantaPlex Deep Learning Server Spy Shots Expose Pascal

Yesterday, during his keynote address at GTC 2016, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang made a number of interesting announcements and disclosures. We saw Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak take a virtual tour of Mars and witnessed the official unveiling of NVIDIA’s Tesla P100, which is based on the company’s bleeding-edge... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Apr 05, 2016

Woz Experiences Mars 2030 VR Demo Powered By NVIDIA VRWorks At GTC 2016

At the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), currently taking place in San Jose, California, NVIDIA showed the first public demo of a virtual reality experience dubbed Mars 2030. Mars 2030 was developed by FUSION in coordination with NASA using scientifically accurate data to create the terrain, lighting models, gravity... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla, Brandon Hill - Tue, Apr 05, 2016

NVIDIA Unveils Beastly Tesla P100 15 Billion Transistor, 16nm FinFET GPU With HBM2 And 21 TFLOPs Performance

NVIDIA just pulled the wraps off its fastest GPU and compute engine yet: the Tesla P100. This new GPU powerhouse is based on NVIDIA’s next generation Pascal architecture, which means that it’s built on a 16nm FinFET process. But even with thoroughly modern FinFET process tech, the Tesla P100’s die size measures 600mm2... Read more...