Drug discovery is like searching for the right jigsaw tile — in a puzzle box with 1060 molecular-size pieces. AI and HPC tools help researchers more quickly narrow down the options, like picking out a subset of correctly shaped and colored puzzle pieces to experiment with. An effective small-molecule drug will bind to a target Read article >

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Back to school was destined to look different this year. With the world adapting to COVID-19, safety measures are preventing a return to in-person teaching in many places. Also, students learning through conventional video conferencing systems often feel the content is difficult to read, or teachers block the words written on presentation boards. Faced with Read article >

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You may have never heard of Pat Hanrahan, but you have almost certainly seen his work. His list of credits includes three Academy Awards, and his work on Pixar’s RenderMan rendering technology enabled Hollywood megahits Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Cars and Jurassic Park. Hanrahan also founded Tableau Software — snatched up by Salesforce last year Read article >

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A new supercomputer under construction is designed to tackle some of the planet’s toughest life sciences challenges by speedily crunching vast quantities of environmental data. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, or JAMSTEC, has commissioned tech giant NEC to build the fourth generation of its Earth Simulator. The new system, scheduled to become Read article >

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Jeff Herbst is a fixture of the AI startup ecosystem. Which makes sense since he’s the VP of business development at NVIDIA and head of NVIDIA Inception, a virtual accelerator that currently has over 6,000 members in a wide range of industries. Ahead of the GPU Technology Conference, taking place Oct. 5-9, Herbst joined AI Read article >

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When it comes to autonomous vehicle simulation testing, every detail must be on point. With its high-fidelity automotive simulation model (ASM) on NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, global automotive supplier dSPACE is helping developers keep virtual self-driving true to the real world. By combining the modularity and openness of the DRIVE Sim simulation software platform with highly Read article >

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