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May 18, 2023

Bringing Far-Field Objects into Focus with Synthetic Data for Camera-Based AV Perception

Detecting far-field objects, such as vehicles that are more than 100 m away, is fundamental for automated driving systems to maneuver safely while operating on...
7 MIN READ
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May 17, 2023

Advanced API Performance: CPUs

This post covers CPU best practices when working with NVIDIA GPUs. To get a high and consistent frame rate in your applications, see all Advanced API...
4 MIN READ
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May 16, 2023

Asynchronous Error Reporting: When printf Just Won’t Do

Some programming situations call for reporting “soft” errors asynchronously. While printf can be a useful tool, it can increase register use and impact...
17 MIN READ
May 16, 2023

Sparsity in INT8: Training Workflow and Best Practices for NVIDIA TensorRT Acceleration

The training stage of deep learning (DL) models consists of learning numerous dense floating-point weight matrices, which results in a massive amount of...
12 MIN READ
May 09, 2023

Automating Data Center Networks with NVIDIA Cumulus Linux

With evolving and ever-growing data centers, the days of simple networks that remained mostly unchanged are gone. Back then, when a configuration change was...
4 MIN READ
May 05, 2023

Why Automatic Augmentation Matters

Deep learning models require hundreds of gigabytes of data to generalize well on unseen samples. Data augmentation helps by increasing the variability of...
13 MIN READ
May 05, 2023

Accelerating Redis Performance Using VMware vSphere 8 and NVIDIA BlueField DPUs

A shift to modern distributed workloads, along with higher networking speeds, has increased the overhead of infrastructure services. There are fewer CPU cycles...
10 MIN READ
May 04, 2023

Increasing Throughput and Reducing Costs for AI-Based Computer Vision with CV-CUDA

Real-time cloud-scale applications that involve AI-based computer vision are growing rapidly. The use cases include image understanding, content creation,...
11 MIN READ
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May 04, 2023

Advanced API Performance: Sampler Feedback

This post covers best practices for using sampler feedback on NVIDIA GPUs. To get a high and consistent frame rate in your applications, see all Advanced API...
2 MIN READ
May 01, 2023

Exelon Uses Synthetic Data Generation of Grid Infrastructure to Automate Drone Inspection

Most drone inspections still require a human to manually inspect the video for defects. Training a computer vision model to automate inspection is difficult...
8 MIN READ
Apr 28, 2023

Microsoft and TempoQuest Accelerate Wind Energy Forecasts with AceCast

Accurate weather modeling is essential for companies to properly forecast renewable energy production and plan for natural disasters. Ineffective and...
7 MIN READ
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Apr 27, 2023

End-to-End AI for NVIDIA-Based PCs: Optimizing AI by Transitioning from FP32 to FP16

This post is part of a series about optimizing end-to-end AI. The performance of AI models is heavily influenced by the precision of the computational resources...
4 MIN READ
Apr 26, 2023

A Comprehensive Guide to Interaction Terms in Linear Regression

Linear regression is a powerful statistical tool used to model the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables (features)....
13 MIN READ
Apr 26, 2023

An Introduction to Large Language Models: Prompt Engineering and P-Tuning

ChatGPT has made quite an impression. Users are excited to use the AI chatbot to ask questions, write poems, imbue a persona for interaction, act as a personal...
10 MIN READ
Apr 25, 2023

End-to-End AI for NVIDIA-Based PCs: ONNX and DirectML

This post is part of a series about optimizing end-to-end AI. While NVIDIA hardware can process the individual operations that constitute a neural network...
14 MIN READ
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Apr 20, 2023

Migrating from Range Profiler to GPU Trace in Nsight Graphics

Starting in Nsight Graphics 2023.1, the GPU Trace Profiler is the best way to profile your graphics application at the frame level. The Frame Profiler activity,...
8 MIN READ