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Steve Jobs once called the personal computer “a bicycle for our minds,” a tool that helps us go farther with the same amount of energy. Puma Energy is the fuels retailing arm of Swiss-based … Read more on Ferret. Classroom technology can make learning more dangerous, and that’s a good thing. Read more on opensource.com.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.

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Blue Origin and Aerojet get in on NASA partnerships for new space technologies

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One involves the development of a space robot operating system that will rely on open-source software and provide greater autonomy while reducing operating costs and improving interoperability with other space systems. Elementum 3D of Erie, Colo., Kent, Wash.-based based Blue Origin will partner with NASA on two projects.

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What’s New and What’s Next in 2023 for HPC

CIO Business Intelligence

Sustainability : As the HPC market grows, so do the implications of running such energy-intensive and complex infrastructure. In an effort to achieve sustainability, industry leaders are prioritizing ways to reduce CO2 impact and even decarbonize HPC—not an easy task with total power usage increasing.

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Everything NVIDIA announced at GTC 2024

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Isaac Manipulator enhances dexterity and AI capabilities for robotic arms, while Isaac Perceptor offers 3D surround vision for autonomous mobile robots, benefiting manufacturing and fulfillment operations. higher in resolution, 1,000x faster, and 3,000x more energy-efficient than current models.

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How Enterprises Boosted AI Through Infrastructure Upgrades

CIO Business Intelligence

Shell rapidly uncovers energy sources. Shell has been using computational sciences to drive technology advances in the energy industry since the 1960s. In addition, the company saw an increase of 18x in speed toward training a few millions documents compared to CPU-based systems ( read the full case study ).

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CIO 100 Award winners prove the transformative value of IT

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Linda Gerull, CIO for the City and County of San Francisco, and her team used a combination of in-house software, open-source programming, and expert algorithms to create an RLA platform capable of automatically auditing thousands of votes on-demand to verify results. The project has been transformative for Generac’s business.