NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was today conferred the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award by Asian American Engineer of the Year, an annual event that recognizes outstanding Asian American scientists, engineers and role models.
In a virtual ceremony, Huang was awarded for his contributions as “a visionary and innovator in parallel computing technology that accelerates the realization of AI computing.” He also spoke of his experience as an immigrant and an Asian American.
“It is strange to accept a lifetime achievement award because I feel like I’m just getting started – and NVIDIA indeed is,” Huang said. “Still, I’m grateful and deeply honored to receive this award, which I share with my colleagues at NVIDIA.”
Past recipients of the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award include Nobel laureates, astronauts and key corporate executives like TSMC founder Morris Chang. The event was hosted by the nonprofit Chinese Institute of Engineers/USA, part of the DiscoverE Diversity Council.
“I was fortunate to have had a front-row seat at the creation of the computer industry,” Huang said, reflecting on the early days of NVIDIA and the birth of GPU-accelerated computing. “We dreamed of solving grand computing challenges and even imagined that we would be a major computing company one day.”
Since the company’s first chip, Huang explained, scene complexity in computer graphics has increased around 500 million times. Beyond the field of graphics, GPU acceleration has been channeled into high performance computing and AI to address previously impossible problems in areas such as molecular biology.
“After nearly three decades, it is gratifying to see this computing approach demonstrate astonishing results, embraced by software developers and computer makers worldwide, become an essential instrument of scientists and the engine of modern AI,” Huang said. “There has never been a more exciting time to be an engineer.”
Huang also took the opportunity to share his thoughts as a first-generation immigrant amid a recent rash of violent attacks on Asian Americans in the wake of the pandemic.
“Like other immigrants, Asian Americans make up the fabric of America, have benefited from but also contributed significantly to building this great country,” he said. “Though America is not perfect, it’s hard as a first-generation immigrant not to feel a deep sense of gratitude for the opportunities she offered. I only hope America offers future generations the same opportunities she afforded me.”
Every teacher has a story about the moment a light switched on for one of their students.
David Tseng recalls a high school senior in Taipei excited at a summer camp to see a robot respond instantly when she updated her software. After class, she had a lot of questions and later built an AI-powered security system that let her friends — but not her parents — into her room.
“Before the class, she said she was not very interested in college, but now she’s majoring in computer science and she’s in my class as a freshman,” said Tseng, an assistant professor at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and founder of CAVEDU, a company that runs youth programs using robotics.
Echoes Out of Africa
A teacher in Tunisia who’s run many robotics events for young people tells a similar story.
“A couple of my students started their own robotics startup, AviaGeek Consulting, and a couple others got internships at an aircraft manufacturer in Tunisia thanks to what they learned and practiced,” said Khlaifia Bilel, an assistant professor of data science at an aviation school near Tunis, who started a student program to build tiny satellites using Jetson products.
“Thanks, NVIDIA, for changing the life of my kids,” he said in a talk at GTC in April.
Planting Seeds on the Farm
Tony Foster, a 4H program volunteer in Kansas, put one of the first Jetson Nano 2GB developer kits into the hands of an 11-year-old.
“She was in a rural area with no programming classes in her junior high school, so we sent her everything she needed and now she’s building a robot that can run a maze and she wants to take it to science fairs and robotics competitions,” he said in a GTC talk (watch a replay free with registration).
Foster, a 4H member since he was seven years old, believes the middle-school years are the best time to plant seeds. “These hands-on opportunities help children grow and learn — and they have results that last a lifetime,” he said.
So far this year, 250 organizations around the globe have expressed interest in using NVIDIA’s educational tools in their curriculum. As part of a grant program, the company has given hundreds of Jetson Nano developer kits to educators in colleges, schools and nonprofit groups.
Our work with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania’s AI Pathways Institute also helps expand access to AI and robotics education to more students, particularly in traditionally underrepresented communities.
Released in October, the Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit packs quite a punch for its size — a whopping 472 gigaflops of AI performance. That’s enough to run Linux and CUDA software as well as AI training and inference jobs.
Students Get Certified in AI
The hardware is just the half of it. NVIDIA also certifies students and educators in AI skills through its Deep Learning Institute (DLI). Eight-hour classes require attendees to demonstrate their skills by building a working project, and they help them do it through online courses, videos and a repository of code to get started.
The curriculum is being embraced around the world from high schools in Korea to universities in Japan and Europe. For example, at Spain’s University of Málaga, more than a dozen students attended a three-day workshop, seven are now certified AI specialists and the university is looking to integrate Jetson into its curriculum.
In Taiwan last year when the pandemic was not a factor, Tseng ran nearly 20 events with 300 participants and a competition that drew seven teams of high schoolers — work that led to 200 people earning DLI certificates.
Teacher Gives Program an A+
A recent weekend event for educators drew more than 100 attendees including 30 college professors, some from fashion, hospitality and economics departments.
David Tseng of CAVEDU in Taiwan
“Schools are encouraging teachers to merge AI into their courses, so they are eager to find suitable content and DLI is very suitable because the documentation is good and it helps them get going right away,” said Tseng, whose company published a book in traditional Chinese to add to the curriculum.
The weekend event drew kudos from one of the professors who attended.
“Thanks to leaders like NVIDIA providing so many wonderful platforms and tools, I am more confident to teach AI in my next semester courses,” said Cheng-Ling Ying, a professor at Jinwen University of Science and Technology.
Making a Difference in Young Lives
Each teacher, each event sends out ripples that affect many young lives.
Back in Kansas, Foster said 4H STEM programs like the ones he runs now “really helped me on my path to become a computer system engineer working at Dell.”
Today, he’s one of 6,000 volunteers in a university extension program that serves 75,000 youth across five counties. “We want to empower youth … to make decisions about their future and go where they want in jobs and careers,” he said.
To learn more about how NVIDIA promotes youth and vocational education go to Jetson for AI Education.
This GFN Thursday marks a new millennium for GeForce NOW.
By adding 13 games this week, our cloud game-streaming service now offers members instant access to 1,000 PC games.
That’s 1,000 games that members can stream instantly to underpowered PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, SHIELD TVs, Android devices, iPhones and iPads. Devices that otherwise wouldn’t dream of playing the latest PC hits now have access to 1,000 fully optimized games, streamed with GeForce performance.
The milestone marks an increase of more than 500 games since the service left beta less than 18 months ago.
And the best part? We’re just getting warmed up.
Playing with the Best
All these games and more are part of the GeForce NOW library. What will you play today?
A grand milestone like this wouldn’t have been possible without the developers and publishers who opted in to stream their games on our open cloud-gaming service.
Publishers like Riot Games, Bungie, Paradox Interactive, Epic Games and more know that bringing their games to the cloud can be easy, and enables more gamers to play their titles. And partners like Square Enix have used GeForce NOW to make sure anyone and everyone can experience their new games, like Outriders, both as a demo and at launch.
These tremendous partners understand the value of making sure that members can play the PC games they already own across their devices. There are more than 300 of these partners who have shown how much they believe in our cloud gaming philosophy, with more joining every GFN Thursday.
Endless Choice
There’s a bit of everything ready and waiting to be played on the cloud — including DLC and expansions, like X3: Albion Prelude, new this week.
With 1,000 games in the GeForce NOW library, including nearly 100 free-to-play games that all members have access to, there’s a title for every type of PC gamer.
Want to become a hero in a strange new land? RPGs like The Witcher 3: Game of the Year Edition put you in the middle of fantasy epics, while exploration games like ASTRONEER challenge you to survive on a strange, brightly colored planet.
Looking for a little history lesson? Travel back to ancient Greece in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, or rule over the Middle Ages in Crusader Kings III.
Members can meet up with their friends, playing cooperatively in games like Destiny 2, Valheim and OUTRIDERS, or competitively in Rocket League and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Or they can enjoy a stunning story in acclaimed titles like Death Stranding, Life is Strange 2, Alan Wake and more.
Want to experience real-time ray tracing for yourself? Priority and Founders members play Control, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Cyberpunk 2077 and more with RTX ON.
There’s a game for every mood. Feeling spooky? Try to survive in Dead by Daylight or Outlast. Feeling spooky and don’t want to be alone? Group up in Phasmophobia and shout at some ghosts. Maybe you’re only afraid of zombies? See how long you can survive in games like 7 Days to Die and Dying Light.
Feel like a collectable card game? Try out Legends of Runeterra or Magic The Gathering: Arena. Feel like a strategy game? How about a sci-fi 4X sim like Endless Space 2, or a historical take on tactics like Hearts of Iron II Complete? Every genre is playable instantly on GeForce NOW.
Looking for a Castaway moment, out in the middle of the ocean with only a shark and some distant dry land to keep you company? Check out Raft.
“Hang on, GeForce NOW,” you might say. “I want to actually play as the shark. Like, literally be a shark. Can you make that happen?” We’ve got that, too: Maneater is for you.
There’s always a new game to discover with a library this big, streaming instantly. And every GFN Thursday brings even more gaming goodness.
All of This and More
Explore a world full of adventure in Alchemist Adventure, an action RPG releasing this week that challenges you to recall the lost memories of your past.
Over a dozen games released this GFN Thursday, bringing GeForce NOW to the grand milestone. This week’s new additions to the cloud library are:
The Immortal Mayor (day-and-date release on Steam, July 15)
Lost at Sea (day-and-date release on Steam, July 15)
There’s a whole lot of games to play on GeForce NOW. What are you grinding this weekend? And what are some of your favorites among the 1,000-game library? Let us know on Twitter or in the comments below.
Robots are not just limited to the assembly line. At NVIDIA, Liila Torabi works on making the next generation of robotics possible. Torabi is the senior product manager for Isaac Sim, a robotics and AI simulation platform powered by NVIDIA Omniverse.
Torabi spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about the new era of robotics, one driven by making robots smarter through AI.
Isaac Sim is used to power photorealistic, physically accurate virtual environments to develop, test and manage AI-based robots.
Key Points From This Episode:
To get to a point where robots and humans can interact and work together, developers need to train the robots and simulate their behavior ahead of time to ensure performance, safety and a variety of other factors. This is where Isaac Sim comes into play.
For Torabi, the biggest technical hurdle is having the robot do more sophisticated jobs. Robot manipulation with different objects, shapes and environments is a challenge.
Tweetables:
“For robotics to get into the next era, we need it to be smarter, so we need the AI component to this.” — Liila Torabi [8:08]
“NVIDIA is well positioned for playing an important role in this next era of robotics because not only do we have the hardware for it, we know how to use this hardware to make this thing smarter. That’s why I’m very excited to see where we can go with Isaac Sim. ” — Liila Torabi [12:09]
Robots can do amazing things. Compare even the most advanced robots to a three-year-old, however, and they can come up short. UC Berkeley Professor Pieter Abbeel has pioneered the idea that deep learning could be the key to bridging that gap: creating robots that can learn how to move through the world more fluidly and naturally.
What if robots could learn, teach themselves and pass on their knowledge to other robots? Where could that take machines and the notion of machine intelligence? And how fast could we get there? Sergey Levine, an assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, explores these questions and more.
NVIDIA’s Jetson interns, recruited at top robotics competitions, discuss what they’re building with NVIDIA Jetson, including a delivery robot, a trash-disposing robot and a remote control car to aid in rescue missions.
Self-driving startup AutoX last week took the wraps off its “Gen5” self-driving system. The autonomous driving platform, which is specifically designed for robotaxis, uses NVIDIA DRIVE automotive-grade GPUs to reach up to 2,200 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of AI compute performance.
In January, AutoX launched a commercial robotaxi system in Shenzhen, China, becoming one of the first autonomous driving companies in the world to provide full self-driving mobility services with no safety driver behind the wheel. The Gen5 system is the next step in its global rollout of safer, more efficient autonomous transportation.
“Safety is key. We need higher processing performance for safe and scalable robotaxi operations,” said Jianxiong Xiao, founder and CEO at AutoX. “With NVIDIA DRIVE, we now have power for more redundancy in a form factor that is automotive grade and more compact.”
Zero Blind Spots
In developing safe self-driving technology, AutoX is aimed at solving the toughest environments first — specifically high-traffic, urban areas.
At the Gen5 Release Event, the company livestreamed its fully driverless robotaxi transporting a passenger through challenging narrow streets in China, called the “Urban Village.”
Safely navigating such chaotic streets requires sensors that can detect obstacles and other road users with the highest levels of accuracy. The Gen5 system relies on 28 automotive-grade camera sensors generating more than 200 million pixels per frame 360-degrees around the car. (For comparison, a single high-definition video frame contains about 2 million pixels.)
In addition to cameras, the robotaxi system includes six high-resolution lidar sensors that produce 15 million points per second and surround 4D radar.
At the center of the Gen5 system are two NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPUs that deliver 900 TOPS each for a truly level 4 autonomous, production platform. With this unprecedented level of AI compute at the core, Gen5 has enough performance to power ultra complex self-driving DNNs while maintaining the compute headroom for more advanced upgrades.
This capability makes it possible for the vehicles to react to high-traffic situations — like dozens of motorcycles and scooters cutting in or riding the opposite way at the same time — in real time, and continually improving, learning how to manage new scenarios as they arise.
More Stops Added
The Shenzhen fully driverless robotaxi service is just the first stop in AutoX’s roadmap to deploy a global driverless vehicle platform.
With a population of more than 12 million people and ranking in the top 50 of global cities with the heaviest traffic, Shenzhen provides an ideal setting for developing a scalable robotaxi model.
The startup plans to roll out thousands of autonomous vehicles powered by the Gen5 system over the next couple of years and expand to multiple cities around the world. AutoX is working with partners such as Stellantis and Honda to integrate their technology in a variety of vehicle platforms.
By leveraging the open, scalable NVIDIA DRIVE platform for each of these use cases, the opportunities for the road ahead are limitless.
Highlighting deep support from a flourishing roster of GeForce partners, NVIDIA’s Jeff Fisher delivered a virtual keynote at COMPUTEX 2021 in Taipei Tuesday.
The virtual keynote, which led with Fisher talking about gaming and then NVIDIA’s Manuvir Das, head of enterprise computing, talking about AI and enterprise platforms (see wrapup, here), began by highlighting NVIDIA’s deep ties to Taiwan.
Deep Roots in Taiwan
Fisher announced the release of a mod — one of thousands for the hyperrealistic flight simulator — paying tribute to Taipei.
“We miss Taipei and wish we could be there in person for COMPUTEX,” Fisher said. “So we created Taipei City in Microsoft Flight Sim and flew in virtually on a GeForce RTX 3080.”
The callout was a tribute to NVIDIA’s many close partners in Taiwan, including Acer, AOC, ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI and Palit.
COMPUTEX is also a key gathering point for partners from around the world, including Alienware, Colorful, Dell, EVGA, Gainward, Galax, HP, Inno3D, Lenovo, PNY, Razer, ViewSonic and Zotac.
“It’s always great to talk directly to our partners, and this year we have a lot to talk about,” Fisher said.
GeForce Partners in Every Category
Throughout his talk, Fisher highlighted NVIDIA’s close ties to partners in Taiwan — and throughout the world — in gaming laptops, desktop GPUs, studio laptops and G-SYNC displays.
Thanks to decades of work with partners, gaming laptops are thriving, and Fisher spotlighted six GeForce RTX laptops from Acer, Dell and HP.
This year brought a record launch for RTX laptops, with over 140 models from every manufacturer.
Starting at $799 and featuring Max-Q, a collection of NVIDIA technologies for making gaming laptops thinner, lighter and more powerful, “there is now an RTX laptop for every gamer,” Fisher said.
Highlighting one example, Fisher announced the Alienware x15, an ultra-thin, GeForce RTX 3080 laptop.
Powered by Max-Q technologies including Dynamic Boost 2.0, WhisperMode 2.0 and Advanced Optimus, and featuring a 1440p display, “it is the world’s most powerful sub-16mm 15-inch gaming laptop,” Fisher said.
In the desktop category, the RTX family of desktop GPUs gets a new flagship gaming GPU, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, and the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti.
NVIDIA partners announced 98 new desktop GPU products, with 11 key partners announcing new RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti desktop graphics cards.
With second-generation RT Cores and third-generation Tensor Cores, the NVIDIA Ampere architecture is “our greatest generational leap ever,” Fisher said. “The 80 Ti class of GPUs represents the best of our gaming lineup.”
For 3D designers, video editors and photographers, NVIDIA developed NVIDIA Studio. These are specially configured systems, optimized and tested for creator workflows, and supported with a monthly cadence of Studio drivers, Fisher said.
NVIDIA partners announced 8 new Studio products, including six ConceptD laptops from Acer and two laptops from HP.
The 14-inch HP Envy brings the capabilities of RTX to an ultra-portable laptop that’s “great for students and creators on the go,” Fisher said.
The new Acer ConceptD offers a variety of traditional clamshell options and an Ezel sketch board design to give creators even more flexibility, Fisher said.
In displays, NVIDIA partners announced five new G-SYNC products. They included two G-SYNC ULTIMATE displays and three G-SYNC displays from Acer, MSI and ViewSonic.
“G-SYNC introduced stutter-free gaming,” Fisher said. “With over 20 trillion buttery-smooth pixels now shipped once you game with G-SYNC, there is no turning back.”
The spate of announcements — highlighted in Fisher’s keynote — are being celebrated throughout the week at COMPUTEX.
Acer, Alienware, and MSI all had special digital activations to support their new products.
“Thanks to all our partners who are just as excited as we are about reinventing this market, and are joining us in the next major leap forward,” Fisher said.
Microsoft Azure has announced the general availability of the ND A100 v4 VM series, their most powerful virtual machines for supercomputer-class AI and HPC workloads, powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA HDR InfiniBand.
When solving grand challenges in AI and HPC, scale is everything. Natural language processing, recommendation systems, healthcare research, drug discovery and energy, among other areas, have all seen tremendous progress enabled by accelerated computing.
Much of that progress has come from applications operating at massive scale. To accelerate this trend, applications need to run on architecture that is flexible, accessible and can both scale up and scale out.
The ND A100 v4 VM brings together eight NVIDIA A100 GPUs in a single VM with the NVIDIA HDR InfiniBand that enables 200Gb/s data bandwidth per GPU. That’s a massive 1.6 Tb/s of interconnect bandwidth per VM.
And, for the most demanding AI and HPC workloads, these can be further scaled out to thousands of NVIDIA A100 GPUs under the same low-latency InfiniBand fabric, delivering both the compute and networking capabilities for multi-node distributed computing.
Ready for Developers
Developers have multiple options to get the most performance out of the NVIDIA A100 GPUs in the ND A100 v4 VM for their applications, both for application development and managing infrastructure once those applications are deployed.
To simplify and speed up development, the NVIDIA NGC catalog offers ready-to-use GPU-optimized application frameworks, containers, pre-trained models, libraries, SDKs and Helm charts. With the prebuilt NVIDIA GPU-optimized Image for AI and HPC on the Azure Marketplace, developers can get started with GPU-accelerated software from the NGC catalog with just a few clicks.
The ND A100 v4 VMs are also supported in the Azure Machine Learning service for interactive AI development, distributed training, batch inferencing and automation with ML Ops.
Deploying machine learning pipelines in production with ND A100 v4 VMs is further simplified using the NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, an open-source inference serving application that’s integrated with Azure ML to maximize both GPU and CPU performance and utilization to help minimize the operational costs of deployment.
Developers and infrastructure managers will soon also be able to use Azure Kubernetes Service, a fully managed Kubernetes service to deploy and manage containerized applications on the ND A100 v4 VMs, with NVIDIA A100 GPUs.
Learn more about the ND A100 v4 VMs on Microsoft Azure and get started with building innovative solutions on the cloud.
The streaming device with the most 4K HDR content available now has even more as Apple TV joins the lineup on NVIDIA SHIELD.
Starting today, SHIELD owners can stream the Apple TV app, including Apple TV+, and its impressive lineup of award-winning series, compelling dramas, groundbreaking documentaries, kids’ shows, comedies and more.
The Apple TV app features Apple TV+, Apple’s video subscription service featuring Apple Originals, including series like Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, For All Mankind and Servant; as well as movies like Greyhound, Palmer and Wolfwalkers. With SHIELD TV, they can be enjoyed in stunning Dolby Vision — a combination that offers beautiful 4K HDR picture quality with remarkable colors, sharper contrasts and incredible brightness. Dolby Atmos is also supported, unlocking richer and more immersive sound. Together, they deliver the best possible cinematic experience.
Apple TV channels are also on the Apple TV app, such as AMC+, Paramount+ and Starz, and watch ad-free and on demand, directly on the Apple TV app. Through Family Sharing, up to six family members can share subscriptions to Apple TV channels using their personal Apple ID and password. And you can enjoy personalized and curated recommendations and access your library of movies and shows purchased from Apple.
Apple TV also works with the built-in Google Assistant on SHIELD for hands-free control of your entertainment. Use simple voice commands to pause, rewind, fast-forward and more.
To search for content using voice, say “Hey Google,” or press the microphone button, and call out a genre or specific show you’d like to watch. New Apple Originals arrive every month, so there’s always something binge-worthy to watch.
And with SHIELD’s amazing AI-upscaling technology even HD content gets an eye-popping boost to 4K.
Download Apple TV from the Google Play store. There’s even a free seven-day Apple TV+ trial available for new subscribers.
SHIELD Gets Even Better
SHIELD is the faster, smarter streaming media player. It’s built on Android TV and supported by industry-leading software updates, includes the latest audio and visual technology and offers the most 4K HDR movies and shows.
With HBO Max delivering new 4K HDR Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos cinematic releases every month and YouTube TV adding more channels and live sports from Hulu, there’s never been a better time to pick up a SHIELD TV.
This includes those who like to game before they watch: For a limited time, get a three-month GeForce NOW Priority Membership with the purchase of a SHIELD TV. GeForce NOW instantly transforms SHIELD TVs — plus PCs, Macs, Chromebooks or mobile devices — into the PC gaming rigs gamers have long dreamed of.
Fisher, senior vice president of NVIDIA’s GeForce business, announced a pair of powerful new gaming GPUs — the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce 3070 Ti. He spoke about NVIDIA’s role in powerful new laptops for gamers and creators. And he detailed the fast-growing adoption of NVIDIA RTX technologies in a growing roster of games.
Das, head of enterprise computing, announced that dozens of new servers are certified to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, marking a rapid expansion of the NVIDIA-Certified Systems program, which has grown to include more than 50 systems from the world’s leading manufacturers.
The joint keynote began with a flourish, with Fisher announcing a unique Microsoft Flight Simulator mod paying tribute to Taipei. “We miss Taipei and wish we could be there in person for COMPUTEX,” Fisher said. “So we created Taipei City in Microsoft Flight Sim and flew in virtually on a GeForce RTX 3080.”
NVIDIA’s Jeff Fisher announced a unique Microsoft Flight Simulator mod paying tribute to Taipei.
New Gaming Flagship, New Laptops, RTX Momentum
Fisher began the talk by touching on how gaming has transformed entertainment. NVIDIA RTX technologies are changing everything, not just for gamers, but for 150 million creators, broadcasters and students, Fisher explained.
RTX accelerates the No. 1 photography app, the No. 1 video editing app and the No. 1 broadcast app. For gamers, RTX is powering the No. 1 battle royale, the No. 1 RPG and the No. 1 best-selling game of all time. Soon 12 of the top 15 competitive shooters will feature NVIDIA Reflex, with the addition of Escape from Tarkov, CrossFire HD and War Thunder, Fisher said.
And GeForce laptops are the fastest-growing gaming platform for such experiences. It’s a platform now fueled top to bottom by RTX, third-generation Max-Q technologies and the magic of DLSS, which uses AI-powered Tensor Cores to boost frame rates.
This year brought a record launch for RTX laptops, with over 140 models from every manufacturer. Starting at $799 and featuring Max-Q, a collection of NVIDIA technologies for making gaming laptops thinner, lighter and more powerful, “there is now an RTX laptop for every gamer,” Fisher said.
Highlighting an example of that work, Fisher announced the Alienware x15, an ultra-thin, GeForce RTX 3080 laptop. Powered by Max-Q technologies including Dynamic Boost 2.0, WhisperMode 2.0 and Advanced Optimus, and featuring a 1440p display, “it is the world’s most powerful sub-16mm 15-inch gaming laptop,” Fisher said.
For 3D designers, video editors and photographers, NVIDIA developed NVIDIA Studio. These are specially configured systems, optimized and tested for creator workflows, and supported with a monthly cadence of Studio Drivers, Fisher said.
Fisher announced a pair of new Studio laptops from HP and Acer. The 14-inch HP Envy brings the capabilities of RTX to an ultra-portable laptop that’s “great for students and creators on the go,” Fisher said. The new Acer ConceptD offers a variety of traditional clamshell options and an Ezel sketch board design to give creators even more flexibility, Fisher said.
The RTX family gets a new flagship gaming GPU, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
Based on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, with second-generation RT Cores and third-generation Tensor Cores, Ampere is “our greatest generational leap ever,” Fisher said. “The 80 Ti class of GPUs represents the best of our gaming lineup.”
The GPU comes as the production value of games continues to march forward, Fisher explained. “New titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Watch Dogs: Legion have elevated realism, demanding even more of the GPU,” he said.
Fisher said the RTX 3080 Ti is 1.5x faster than its predecessor and tears through the latest games with all the settings cranked up. And the RTX 3070 Ti is 1.5x faster than a 2070 SUPER, thanks to more cores and superfast GDDR6X memory.
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti availability will begin on June 3, starting at $1,199. GeForce RTX 3070 Ti availability begins on June 10, starting at $599.
“Every person born today is a gamer,” Fisher said. “We have an amazing future ahead, and we look forward to building it with all of you.”
‘AI for Every Company’
Following Fisher, Das spoke in detail about the three essential ingredients built by NVIDIA: the hardware foundation from which to make any system, the software platform for artificial intelligence and the software platform for collaborative design.
“It is time to democratize AI by bringing its transformative power to every company and its customers,” Das said.
To help system manufacturers create AI-optimized designs and to ensure that the systems can be relied on by customers, NVIDIA made NVIDIA-Certified, a program for servers that incorporate GPU acceleration, Das explained.
NVIDIA’s Manuvir Das spoke in detail about the three essential ingredients built by NVIDIA: the hardware foundation from which to make any system, the software platform for artificial intelligence and the software platform for collaborative design.
Coming from Advantech, Altos, ASRock Rack, ASUS, Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, QCT, Supermicro and others, the growing roster of NVIDIA-Certified Systems include some of the highest-volume x86 servers used in mainstream data centers. They bring the power of AI to a wide range of industries including healthcare, manufacturing, retail and financial services.
“Going forward, the DPU will be an essential component of every server, in the data center and at the edge,” Das said.
Das also announced the NVIDIA-Certified System program will expand to support accelerated systems with Arm-based host CPUs. In addition, along with NVIDIA partner GIGABYTE, Das announced a devkit can be used by application developers to prepare their GPU-accelerated apps for Arm.
“As the GPU and DPU accelerators take on more of the compute workload for AI, it becomes useful to view the host CPU as an orchestrator, more so than as the compute engine,” Das said.
Google Cloud is among the first cloud service providers planning to enable NVIDIA’s powerful Base Command Platform for the management and orchestration of clusters in their cloud instances.
Building on NVIDIA’s work to enable powerful GPU instances in the cloud, Das announced that Google Cloud is among the first cloud service providers planning to enable NVIDIA’s powerful Base Command Platform for the management and orchestration of clusters in their cloud instances.
The software is designed for large-scale, multi-user and multi-team AI development workflows hosted either on premises or in the cloud. It enables numerous researchers and data scientists to simultaneously work on accelerated computing resources, helping enterprises maximize the productivity of both their expert developers and their valuable AI infrastructure.
Das announced that Cloudera, a provider of Apache Spark to enterprise data centers around the world, will add transparent GPU acceleration using NVIDIA RAPIDS, a set of libraries that accelerate machine learning on GPUs. A fully integrated solution from Cloudera will be available starting this summer, with the release of CDP version 7.1.7, Das said.
Das also announced that NVIDIA will partner with leading global systems providers to offer NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, making it easy for teams to collaboratively design and simulate in 3D at $14,000 per year per company.
“Companies around the world and across industries are already using Omniverse to collaborate in amazing ways,” Das said.
And in security, Das announced that NVIDIA is working with Red Hat to provide Morpheus developer kits for both OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL, the most commonly used version of commercial Linux in enterprise data centers today.
Morpheus, introduced at NVIDIA’s GTC conference earlier this year, uses machine learning to identify, capture and take action on threats and anomalies.
“Cybersecurity companies will now be able to use Morpheus on RHEL and OpenShift to bring advanced security to every enterprise data center,” Das said.
‘Thank You’
Das closed his COMPUTEX talk — which touched on the work of so many partners — on a note of gratitude to NVIDIA’s customers and partners throughout the industry.
“On behalf of my co-presenter Jeff Fisher, our CEO Jensen Huang and all of NVIDIA, thank you,” Das said. “Thank you for joining us today; thank you for being with us every step of the way; and thank you for continuing forward with us on this amazing journey.”
Content creators are getting a slew of new tools in their creative arsenal at COMPUTEX with the announcement of new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti GPUs. These GPUs deliver massive time savings for freelancers and creatives specializing in video editing, 3D animation or architectural visualization.
In addition, HP and Acer announced new NVIDIA Studio laptops with GeForce RTX 30 Series and NVIDIA RTX professional GPUs, including the latest 11th Gen Intel mobile processors.
Finally, the latest NVIDIA Omniverse app, Machinima, is now in beta, fully supported by the latest NVIDIA Studio drivers.
Expand Your Creative Arsenal
The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti GPUs deliver incredible leaps in performance and fidelity. The powerhouse 3080 Ti is ideal for high-end content creation thanks to its faster clocks and 12GB of superfast GDDR6X video memory.
The 3080 Ti shines in heavy-rendering workloads, where it can make full use of the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, including second-generation RT Cores and third generation Tensor Cores, as well as performance gains from NVIDIA DLSS, to get the job done fast. And it’s ideal for high-end video editing, especially 8K HDR RAW footage.
The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti turbocharges the popular RTX 3070 by giving it more CUDA cores and super-speedy GDDR6 video memory. Content creators will enjoy faster texture loading times, making the 3070 Ti a great choice for 3D rendering and video editing with up to 6K HDR RAW footage.
The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will be available on June 3 starting at $1,199, and the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be available next week starting at $599.
More Studio Laptop Options for Content Creation
HP, Acer and MSI are offering new NVIDIA Studio laptops powered by the latest GeForce RTX 30 Series and NVIDIA RTX Professional GPUs, and the latest 11th Gen Intel mobile processors.
HP’s refreshed Envy 15 and Envy 14 feature elegant designs and fantastic, color-calibrated displays. For students and commuters, the Envy 14 packs the power of NVIDIA Studio in an ultra-portable creator laptop, powered with a GeForce RTX 3050 or 3050 Ti GPU. For creators who want more power, the Envy 15, which can include up to a GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, is perfect for video editing thanks to its larger display and video memory.
Acer is updating the ConceptD creator lineup with the new ConceptD 3 Ezel, the all-metal ConceptD 5 laptop and the ConceptD 7 Ezel flagship. The ConceptD 7 Ezel features up to a GeForce RTX 3080 and the Pro model up to an NVIDIA RTX A5000 Laptop GPU, and Acer’s patented adjustable 15.6-inch 4K PANTONE-validated touchscreen display. The lineup has a wide selection of GPU options for any type of creator, ranging from the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti up to RTX 3080, and with options for professional GPUs such as the NVIDIA RTX A5000.
MSI’s Creator Z16, Creator 17, WS66 and WS76 units have joined the NVIDIA Studio program. The Creator Z16 is an elegant and premium laptop powered by a GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU. It sports a striking postmodern design with a True Pixel display with QHD+ resolution, DCI-P3 100 percent color gamut, factory-calibrated Delta-E <2 out of the box accuracy.
Omniverse Machinima Now in Beta
Gaming has been an inspiration to digital creators and artists for decades. Machinima, an art form started in the ’90s, uses real-time 3D technologies with game assets, visual effects and character animation to create short, humorous clips, or full-length movies. Using the latest RTX technologies, NVIDIA built Omniverse Machinima, an application that lets people collaborate in real time and create amazing animated video game stories.
Creators can import their own game assets or draw from Omniverse’s growing library, including content from Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Squad! and iconic NVIDIA tech demos. Advanced physics effects like destruction or fire can be applied with NVIDIA’s PhysX 5, Blast and Flow. Animate character movements using only a webcam with wrnch’s AI Pose and use simple audio tracks to animate character faces with Omniverse Audio2Face.
Upon completion, creators can access the Omniverse RTX Renderer for the highest quality output, enhanced with real-time ray tracing and referenced path tracing for interactive, bleeding-edge visuals.
These new GPUs and NVIDIA Studio laptops benefit from the RTX acceleration and optimization of the NVIDIA Studio ecosystem:
Performance optimization in hundreds of creator apps, including 70+ apps optimized for RTX ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS.
NVIDIA Studio Drivers, optimized for content creation to provide the best performance and stability. Drivers are kept up to date automatically with GeForce Experience and NVIDIA RTX Experience.
