Rob Nertney

Rob Nertney is a senior software architect for confidential computing. He has spent nearly 15 years architecting the features and deployment of accelerator hardware into hyperscale environments for both internal and external use by developers. He has several patents in processor design relating to secure solutions that are in production today. In his spare time, he loves golfing when the weather is nice, and gaming (on RTX hardware of course!) when the weather isn’t.
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Posts by Rob Nertney

Data Science

Bringing Confidentiality to Vector Search with Cyborg and RAPIDS cuVS

In the era of generative AI, vector databases have become indispensable for storing and querying high-dimensional data efficiently. However, like all databases,... 7 MIN READ
Cybersecurity

Announcing Confidential Computing General Access on NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs

NVIDIA launched the initial release of the Confidential Computing (CC) solution in private preview for early access in July 2023 through NVIDIA LaunchPad.... 3 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design

CUDA Toolkit 12.4 Enhances Support for NVIDIA Grace Hopper and Confidential Computing

The latest release of CUDA Toolkit, version 12.4, continues to push accelerated computing performance using the latest NVIDIA GPUs. This post explains the new... 9 MIN READ
Data Center / Cloud

Confidential Computing on NVIDIA H100 GPUs for Secure and Trustworthy AI

Hardware virtualization is an effective way to isolate workloads in virtual machines (VMs) from the physical hardware and from each other. This offers improved... 12 MIN READ
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Simulation / Modeling / Design

CUDA Toolkit 12.2 Unleashes Powerful Features for Boosting Applications

The latest release of CUDA Toolkit 12.2 introduces a range of essential new features, modifications to the programming model, and enhanced support for hardware... 8 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design

CUDA Toolkit 12.0 Released for General Availability

NVIDIA announces the newest CUDA Toolkit software release, 12.0. This release is the first major release in many years and it focuses on new programming models... 12 MIN READ