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In shadow of ChatGPT, assorted Nvidia technologies grows at GTC 2023

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Mar 28, 2023
In shadow of ChatGPT, diverse Nvidia technology grows at GTC 2023


It was challenging to discern amid the ChatGPT information that dominated at last week’s Nvidia GTC 2023 occasion, but it is truly worth noting that Nvidia technologies proceeds to drive ahead a wide array of initiatives.

Specialized periods and solution bulletins in radar structure simulation, streaming sensor array information processing and computational lithography do not in shape in the spirited ChatGPT chorus, but some of these bulletins may perhaps establish similarly important in the prolonged term.

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Even as he evangelizes ChatGPT, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang continues to show enthusiasm for a range of undertakings under the banner of “accelerated computing.”

Steady progress has held Nvidia in good stead as it expanded GPU technology from graphics cards and video games to crypto-mining and supercomputing, and now, enterprise AI.

Even at its inception in the 1990s, Nvidia proclaimed that its GPU technology had applications beyond graphics processing. That was somewhat retro at the time, as standalone floating-point coprocessors were being added to CPUs. All along, Nvidia’s mission has been to accelerate computing.

The company was careful to nurture products that could be used in the near term, but also to seed long-term uses. Nvidia had to continually create software that eased such evolution. A very notable case is the CUDA programming platform.

That paid off as industry began to pursue AI and deep learning, where GPUs’ very high memory bandwidth thrived. On the hardware front, Nvidia chips have a significant lead in AI in the data center. Despite a slew of specialized ASICs, little has curbed general GPU enthusiasm in deep learning. 

Nvidia continues to spice up its product line. In the shadow of varied ChatGPT advances at GTC, Nvidia’s notable announcements included:

Open-sourcing its Modulus framework

Nvidia is making its Modulus framework available for use with physics-ML under the simple Apache 2.0 license. This can advance efforts to combine physical modeling and numerical simulation.

Why is that important? In recent years Nvidia Modulus has forged a family of neural operators, which now include physics-informed neural networks. Success with physics-ML could translate into better results in modeling physical systems. That would lead to better fidelity, for example, for digital twins across industries, or avatars across metaverses.

cuLitho: a software library to speed computational lithography workloads

Speeding up computational lithography is important as the late Gordon Moore’s Law runs its course. Circuit features are now ultra-small, and it is an incredibly complex job to calculate precise manipulation of mask patterns used to draw them on silicon wafers.

The cuLitho library runs on GPUs and increases speed of nanoscale computational lithography to 40 times greater than today’s alternatives, according to the company. Nvidia foresees dramatic speed-ups in the work of semiconductor fabs with cuLitho.

A quantum-classical computing platform

Nvidia together with Tel Aviv-based Quantum Machines announced a platform that will match an OPX+ quantum control system with a Nvidia Grace Hopper system. The goal is to create a system that can scale from a few-qubit rig to a quantum-accelerated supercomputer.

Quantum-classical computing would fill a gap as quantum computing advocates work to extend coherence times, improve error correction and scale-up qubit counts.

A payback on these efforts will be hard won. In the case of quantum computing, Nvidia’s Huang was pretty clear that he sees full-fledged adaptations as a longer-term goal.

Quantum computing is “solidly a decade and two decades away to have … broadly useful quantum systems,” he said at a GTC press conference.

Nvidia and the next computer overlord

Huang is not alone in his prediction that true quantum computing is 10 years off of more. That is not altogether surprising given Nvidia’s post on the farthest frontier of classical computing today.

Since Nvidia is focused on accelerated computing, it seems in a position to embrace quantum computing if and when it outpaces GPU-based machines.

For me, it’s not hard to picture Huang echoing game-show king Ken Jennings’s bemused words when Watson won their Jeopardy match: “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.” After all, speeding computation is the true quest.

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