Today Is The Day - GTC 2016 (i.e. Pascal Debut)

Play time is over. When Jen-Hsun Huang takes the stage for the opening keynote for GTC, it can mean only ONE thing.... :)

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/art...c-2016-keynote

And watch it be like the LAST thing he mentions (of course)

First big announcement (aside from the nVIDIA SDK)...

iRAY VR / iRAY VR Lite

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Breakthru VR rendering technology to power the VR experience of the future.

Did a live demo with Steve Wozniak and a VR experience on Mars. Also demoed an amazing Mount Everest VR recreation.

But...what is all this going to run on...? :)

First up (hardware-wise)...

Deep Learning / AI / Hyperscalers...

Powered by Tesla M4 & Tesla M40

(The M4 is the little guy, M40 big boy)

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Crazy demo of how Skynet is definitely going to kill us all.

They fed thousands of images from a specific time period, the deep learning neural network drew its own, new images (i.e. unsupervised learning).

Up next....and getting closer...

The Tesla P100.

http://s19.postimg.org/ixh4mew5b/GTC_Cap_5.jpg

As a comparison, its predecessor (Maxwell generation) contained 7 billion transistors...

The Tesla P100 contains 150 billion transistors.

http://s19.postimg.org/omxd6q2bj/GTC_Cap_6.jpg

And since we know that there are always two classes each GPU...one can only imagine what's next...

So out of all the major announcements today (five), what's left?

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The world's first Deep Learning Supercomputer...The nVIDIA DGX-1

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So you see the specs on the Tesla P100, this beast has EIGHT of them inside.

http://s19.postimg.org/e3xdhjznj/GTC_Cap_9.jpg

And remember all the talk about Pascal being "10x faster than Maxwell"? It's not 10x faster...it's 12x faster.

I'm already salivating at the possibility of getting to work with a client that will be looking to implement this soon :)

So yeah...he's being a super big tease about waiting to the last minute to give us what we really want.

And the cost of the DGX-1 is $129k.

That's actually pretty impressive. Making it available to leading Deep Learning institutions (Berkeley, Mass. General, etc...).

Use-cases for medical and molecular research industries (and gas, oil, geology, etc...). I know not super exciting to some, but I geek out over some of this stuff because I work with clients in those industries :)

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And yeah, yeah, yeah....we already know about nVIDIA Drive and AI Car Computing...

http://s19.postimg.org/n5gi8wmyn/GTC_Cap_11.jpg

http://s19.postimg.org/c758qpydb/GTC_Cap_12.jpg

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooring! ;)

Keep it coming, I'm hooked!


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Wow...and so all that for nothing...

No GTX announcement :(

Quite a shocker.

Well that was a total waste of 2.5 hours! ;)