Students Use GPUs to Sweep Asian Supercomputing Competition, Top Green500
After a grueling five-day battle, three teams emerged as winners in the first annual Asia Student Cluster Challenge (ACS13). One even beat the power-efficiency record set by the...

We’re putting computing graduate research into high gear again with this year’s NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program. The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program awards $25,000 to Ph.D. students involved in computer...
Every few years we’re reminded of how devastating earthquakes can be. Two years ago, a 9.0-magitude earthquake off the east coast of Japan killed more than 15,000 people and...
Trying to determine the origins and fate of the universe is important work with far-reaching implications. But cosmologists, unlike their counterparts in other scientific fields, can’t do hands-on experiments...
Stretch a strand of human DNA out to its full length and it’s two meters long. Yet all that material – and the information it carries – gets balled...
Ask any weatherman: Predicting the weather is not easy. Throw in Switzerland’s...
There are some 400 technical talks lined up for next week’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), but few will be as topical as Ed Karrels’. The Santa Clara University researcher...
Reviews are in for the newly launched GeForce GTX TITAN: “Awe-inspiring performance” (AnandTech), “Beautifully engineered product” (TechRadar), “Head, shoulders and knees above its compatriots” (HardwareCanucks). So, gamers everywhere will...
Until recently, if you wanted to see NVIDIA’s most far-out GPU technology you had to travel to a secure government facility. Drive deep into the wooded hills of East...
Surprise! Only a small percentage of scientists use computers for their research. Give me a moment, I can explain. It turns out that even though a lot of folks...
The GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2013 is less than six weeks away. Once again, the world’s #1 event on accelerated computing will showcase scientific and engineering breakthroughs made possible...
NVIDIA's GPUs have helped the new supercomputer at the Cineca facility in Italy hit an unprecedented milestone for energy efficiency. And in doing so, it is able to deliver...
As a Chilean scientist living abroad, I’m always thinking about how my work can be relevant in Latin America. Research funds can be scarce, even if demand for consumer products...
For many enterprises, Big Data can mean big confusion. Fuzzy Logix, a North Carolina-based startup, is helping them make better sense of it and predict the...
This week it became official: the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee was crowned the fastest computer on Earth, according to the Top500 list...
The annual Supercomputing (SC12) conference – the world’s biggest supercomputing trade show –– kicks off next Monday in Salt Lake City, and we’ll be there, unveiling a...
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has been doing some amazing things with CUDA. So we’ve named CMU as a CUDA Center of Excellence. The recognition is a result...
Al Enger has been a busy man. Enger is one of a crew of Cray engineers who have been working to assemble a massive new supercomputer at...
Nearly one-third of the top 50 supercomputers in Russia, including the two fastest systems, get most of their computing capability from NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, according to the...
With a $6.9 billion annual budget, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is the top U.S. government agency promoting breakthroughs in science and engineering by sponsoring programs in...
