Astronomy / Astrophysics

Illustration of deep space, stars and the galaxy.
Aug 04, 2021

AI Detects Gravitational Waves Faster than Real Time

Scientists searching the universe for gravitational waves just got a boost thanks to a new study and AI. The research, recently published in Nature Astronomy,...
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May 28, 2021

Researchers Harness GANs for Super-Resolution of Space Simulations

Astrophysics researchers have long faced a tradeoff when simulating space— simulations could be either high-resolution or cover a large swath of the universe....
3 MIN READ
Apr 16, 2021

Deep Learning Classifies Largest-Ever Catalog of Distant Galaxies

University of Pennsylvania researchers have used convolutional neural networks to catalog the morphology of 27 million galaxies, giving astronomers a massive...
3 MIN READ
Mar 16, 2021

Antarctic Observatory Data, Ray Tracing Advance Astrophysics Research

Scientists from the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center are using ray tracing on NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate simulations of subatomic particles by...
2 MIN READ
Oct 03, 2019

Accelerating Innovation in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with GPU-Accelerated Computing

To help accelerate multi-messenger (MMA) astrophysics with deep learning, dozens of researchers from multiple communities including HPC, AI, physics, data...
3 MIN READ
May 16, 2019

High School Student Uses AI to Detect Gravitational Waves

Before he could legally drive, high school student Adam Rebei was already submitting jobs on the Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center...
3 MIN READ
Oct 03, 2018

Nature: Supercharge your Research with a GPU

NVIDIA GPUs power the world's fastest supercomputer, and 20 of the 100 most powerful supercomputing clusters in the world are also powered by them too....
3 MIN READ
Jul 16, 2018

Using OpenACC to Port Solar Storm Modeling Code to GPUs

Solar storms consist of massive explosions on the Sun that can release the energy of over 2 billion megatons of TNT in the form of solar flares and Coronal Mass...
39 MIN READ
Mar 07, 2018

Swinburne Launches New GPU-Accelerated Supercomputer

Swinburne University of Technology officially launched one of the most powerful supercomputers in Australia to help unlock the secrets of the Universe....
2 MIN READ
Jan 25, 2018

Detecting Gravitational Waves in Real-Time with Deep Learning

Scientists at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used GPUs and deep learning...
2 MIN READ
Jan 16, 2018

Supercomputer Helps Provide Insight Into Mysterious Black Hole Relativistic Jets

Researchers from University of Amsterdam and Northwestern University used the GPU-accelerated Blue Waters supercomputer to produce the first ever simulation to...
2 MIN READ
Aug 16, 2017

Swinburne's New GPU-Accelerated Supercomputer to Study Gravity

Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology announced plans of a new supercomputer that will be used to power research into astrophysics and gravitational...
2 MIN READ
Jun 13, 2017

GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers Create Largest Simulation of the Universe

To investigate the nature of dark matter and dark energy, researchers from University of Zurich simulated the formation of our entire universe with the help of...
2 MIN READ
Jun 01, 2017

GPUs and Deep Learning Could Help Control Robots in Space

A six-person startup from Seattle developed augmented telerobotics software that gives humans better control of remotely operated robots which can be useful for...
2 MIN READ
May 31, 2017

University of Bristol’s New Tesla P100-Accelerated Supercomputer

Three times faster than its predecessor, Blue Crystal 4 (BC4) at University of Bristol can perform 600 trillion calculations per second and will accelerate the...
2 MIN READ
May 30, 2017

AI Helps Measure Properties of Stars

Scientists from Australia and Denmark trained a deep learning system to classify and predict the ages of red giant stars. “Automated methods do exist…
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