Astronomy & Astrophysics

Swinburne’s New GPU-Accelerated Supercomputer to Study Gravity

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Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology announced plans of a new supercomputer that will be used to power research into astrophysics and gravitational waves, with the university seeking to further prove the science behind Einstein’s theory of

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GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers Create Largest Simulation of the Universe

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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 two GPU-accelerated supercomputers.

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GPUs and Deep Learning Could Help Control Robots in Space

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A six-person startup from Seattle developed augmented telerobotics software that gives humans better control of remotely operated robots which can be useful for exploring Mars or other planets.

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University of Bristol’s New Tesla P100-Accelerated Supercomputer

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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 work of more than 1,000 researchers and engineers. According to Dr.

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AI Helps Measure Properties of Stars

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Scientists from Australia and Denmark trained a deep learning system to classify and predict the ages of red giant stars.

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Scientists Capture First Image of a Black Hole

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Astronomers from around the world pointed their powerful telescopes towards a supermassive black hole that lies in the center of the Milky Way (nearly 26,000 light years from Earth) and believe they have snapped the first-ever picture of a black hole

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Developer Spotlight: Defending the Planet Against Asteroids with Artificial Intelligence

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James Parr, co-director of the NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL) shares how NVIDIA GPUs and deep learning can help detect, characterize and deflect asteroids.

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Supercomputer Helps Understand How Jupiter Evolved

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Researchers from ETH Zürich and the Universities of Zürich and Bern simulated different scenarios on the computing power of the GPU-accelerated Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) to find out how young giant planets exactly form and evolve.

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Share Your Science: GPUs Help Provide Insight on the Secrets of Solar Wind

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Shahab Fatemi, PhD Fellow at the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, shares how his team is using CUDA, TITAN X and Tesla K80 GPUs to develop a three-dimensional plasma model that can provide a better understanding of how sol

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Reshaping the Light on Extreme Diameter Telescopes with GPUs

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The atmospheric turbulence that distorts the trajectory of lights rays have been a source of frustration for astronomers using huge telescopes.

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