Tuesday, November 09, 2021

Nvidia's transformation into a full-stack computing company

If it is not hype, then this is quite impressive! We will soon find out!

E.g. will the virtual restaurant waiters soon come to a table near you (stationary or mobile)?

"Nvidia is using its GTC conference, which kicked off today, to show how it is building out full-stack technologies to make access to AI and immersive experiences available to any enterprise with the ambition to take advantage of them. ...
Nvidia has created a “unified compute framework,” which treats AI models as microservices that can be run together or in a distributed, hybrid architecture ...
The Omniverse, Nvidia’s concept for interoperable “metaverse” virtual worlds, is built on the foundation of Universal Scene Description, a specification originally developed by Pixar. “We think of USD [Universal Scene Description] as the HTML of 3D,”  ... While it may not be governed by an organization like the W3C, a consortium of companies is working to advance USD ... For example, Universal Scene Description recently added a rigid body physics model Nvidia worked on with Apple and Pixar. ...
Jetson robotics platform built on the combination of its GPUs and Arm CPUs. The Jetson AGX Orin version scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2022 promises 6 times more processing power within the same form factor as the previous Xavier edition. Delivering 200 trillion operations per second, Jetson AGX Orin is like a GPU-enabled server you can fit in the palm of your hand, according to Nvidia. But even work on physical robots connects back to the Omniverse. Nvidia recently announced a toolkit for integrating the open source Robotics Operating System (ROS) with Isaac Sim, its simulation environment for robotics applications. Data replication with Isaac makes it possible to test virtual instantiations of robots in worlds populated with synthetic data ...
Nvidia’s technologies are finding their way into surgical robotics."

Nvidia's transformation into a full-stack computing company | VentureBeat

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