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Oct 31, 2022
Explainer: What Is Green Computing?
Green computing, also called sustainable computing, aims to maximize energy efficiency and minimize environmental impact in the ways computer chips, systems,...
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Nov 29, 2016
Share Your Science: Understanding Cancer Biology with GPUs
Gil Speyer, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) shares how NVIDIA technology is accelerating the computer...
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Feb 29, 2016
GPUs Help Measure Rising Sea Levels in Real-Time
Sea levels have traditionally been measured by marks on land – but the problem with this approach is that parts of the earth’s crust move too. A group of...
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Jan 19, 2016
Deep Learning Helps Robot Learn to Walk the Way Humans Do
University of California, Berkeley researchers are using deep learning and NVIDIA GPUs to create a new generation of robots that adapt to changing environments...
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Jan 13, 2016
Pedestrian-Following Service Robots Made Possible with CUDA Acceleration
A team of researchers from Seoul National University built a pedestrian-following service robot to drive smart shopping carts and other autonomous helpers. The...
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Jan 11, 2016
Identifying Endangered Whales with Deep Neural Networks
With less than 500 North Atlantic right whales left in the world's oceans, knowing the health and status of each whale is integral to the efforts of...
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Jan 04, 2016
Diagnosing Cancer with Deep Learning and GPUs
Using GPU-accelerated deep learning, researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong pushed the boundaries of cancer image analysis in a way that could one...
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Dec 04, 2015
Share Your Science: Detecting Tumor Cells in Blood Samples
Dr. Diego Rossinelli, an ETH Zurich researcher and 2015 Gordon Bell Finalist, shares how they are relying on CUDA and Tesla GPUs to track down tumor cells that...
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Dec 01, 2015
Using CUDA and Machine Learning to Detect Colon Cancer
As part of the GlaS@MICCAI2015 colon gland segmentation challenge, a team of researchers introduced a machine learning-based algorithm to segment glands in...
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Nov 30, 2015
University of Toronto's GPU-Accelerated Cancer Research Wins NVIDIA Foundation Award
Cancer kills almost 600,000 people each year in the U.S. alone. Researchers from the University of Toronto are advancing computational cancer research by...
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