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CUDA Center Using Robots to Build Real
Time Maps
March 10, 2014 by CHANDRA CHEIJ

Need a map? Don’t bother asking for directions. Just send in the robots.

Imagine sending a robot into a new environment – say, a lush tropical jungle brimming with rare creatures or
an unexplored building – and being able to get a map or digital blueprint anywhere in the world in just a few
moments.

A research team at Poland’s Institute of Mathematical Machines, led by Janusz Bedkowski, wants to do just
that. their plan is to develop new robotic applications that will use photos to build three-dimensional maps
and electronic blueprints that can be served up on phones and tablets.

It’s a data-intensive task, and Bedkowski and his colleagues want to build these maps in real time as new
environments are explored. It’s a perfect application for NVIDIA’s CUDA technology, which puts the parallel
processing power of the GPUs used by millions of gamers to work solving problems for scientists and
businesspeople.

Bedkowski’s work is an example of the challenges being tackled by the 26 institutions added this past quarter
to our roster of CUDA Research Centers and CUDA Teaching Centers. CUDA Teaching Centers help tens of
thousands of students graduating learn how to use the parallel processing power of GPUs (see “What Is
CUDA?”).

They get free teaching kits, textbooks, software licenses, NVIDIA CUDA GPUs for teaching lab computers and
academic discounts for additional hardware.  CUDA Research Centers have access to events with key
researchers and academics, a designated NVIDIA technical liaison and specialized training sessions.

As part of a project dubbed ICARUS — short for Integrated Components for Assisted Rescue and Unmanned
Search operations – IMM’s team is collecting data from unmanned vehicles, pouring it into a common
reference coordinate system, and using CUDA-based algorithms and NVIDIA’s GRID technology to distribute
the data over networks. From there, it could be accessed on mobile devices.

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Another project, funded by the Polish National Centre of Research and Development, is using mobile robots
to build models of the environment around them, serve up that data via GRID, and build a 3D CAD model of a
building that can be accessed by architects anywhere in the world within an hour.

There are now more than 344 CUDA Research and Teaching centers in 44 countries.

Additional New CUDA Research Centers:

Imperial College London (UK)

Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (Brazil)
Nirma University (India)
Perm State University (Russia)
The George Washington University (U.S.)
Tsinghua University (China)
University of Michigan (U.S.)

New CUDA Teaching Centers:

Al-Balqa Applied University (Jordan)

Columbia University (U.S.)
COMSAT Islamabad (Pakistan)
Harbin Institute of Technology (China)
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (India)
Institute of Management and Career Courses (India)
Manipal Universeity Jaipur (India)
Nankai University (China)
Riga High Tech University (Latvia)
Southern Federal University (Russia)
Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany)
Thapar University (India)
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
Universidad Católica San Antonio (Spain)
Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (Colombia)
University of Winnipeg (Canada)
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (India)
University of Seville (Spain)

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Doctors Are Superheroes Today,
Superhumans Tomorrow
April 23, 2018 by ABDUL HAMID HALABI

Supercharging doctors with artificial intelligence.

AI is the most important technology of our time, while early detection is the most important medical
challenge of our time. Incredible breakthroughs in AI are making it possible for doctors to see disease earlier
and better understand it.

That’s why NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is speaking at the World Medical Innovation Forum (WMIF)
this week in Boston. More than 1,000 worldwide leaders in industry and academia will share recent
innovations at the intersection of AI and healthcare — this is the focus of Huang’s fireside chat.

NVIDIA’s Medical Record

NVIDIA’s work in virtual reality gaming, AI and self-driving cars constantly grabs headlines. Hidden in our
chart is the great work we do with partners in healthcare.

The earliest applications of CUDA, our GPU computing platform, were in medical imaging and life
science. Invented 15 years earlier, iterative reconstruction was a new algorithm in computed tomography that
promised X-ray dose reduction but was too computationally expensive. NVIDIA GPUs made it possible for GE
Healthcare’s family of Revolution CT to reduce radiation by 82 percent.

Ultrasound has also been revolutionized by GPU computing; GE Healthcare’s Vivid E95 can perform real-time
4D imaging to see blood flow through the heart.

NVIDIA GPU computing enabled life science researchers at Klaus Schulten’s computational biophysics lab at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to simulate molecular dynamics at a scale 1,000x larger than
otherwise possible. This allowed them to create never seen before views of an HIV capsid and the first ever
simulation of an entire life form, that of the satellite tobacco mosaic virus.

ThermoFisher Scientific engineers accelerated their gene sequencing algorithm by 250x with NVIDIA GPUs,
and created the Ion S5 Next Generation Sequencing system — a breakthrough in both cost and time savings
to analyze a targeted gene sequence.

At the University of Stockholm, NVIDIA GPUs enable researcher Erik Lindahl’s RELION imaging application to
process and reconstruct 3D images of molecular structures. RELION is the imaging software of the Nobel
Prize-winning cryogenic electron microscope. Cryo-EM lets researchers freeze molecules in mid-motion and
see biological processes at the atomic level for the first time. The journal Nature dubbed Cryo-EM its
scientific “Method of the Year.”

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Healthcare has been an intense focus at NVIDIA for over a decade.

AI Give Doctors Superhuman Powers

Deep learning burst onto the computing scene six years ago when Alex Krizhevsky won ImageNet, the
international computer image recognition contest. Krizhevsky used NVIDIA GPUs to train his eight-layer deep
neural network, called AlexNet.

Recognizing the importance of this approach of software development, NVIDIA went all-in on deep learning,
believing it would lead to advances in AI and help solve problems never before possible. It was a good
decision. Today, deep learning software has achieved superhuman pattern recognition capabilities — in vision,
sound, speech and many other forms of perception.

This year, we announced the new Volta GPU — the first processor that is equally adept at computer graphics,
scientific computing and deep learning. With Volta’s Tensor Core architecture, AlexNet can be trained 500x
faster than just six years ago. NVIDIA is advancing AI computing at lightning speeds.

Medical imaging researchers have discovered the power of deep learning. Half of the papers presented at
last year’s MICCAI, the leading medical imaging conference, applied deep learning. We’re working with over
300 healthcare startups tackling challenges now possible with deep learning. Together they’ve raised over
$1.5 billion. Arterys, Butterfly Networks, RADLogics, Viz.Ai and Zebra are doing exciting work in medical
imaging, with many AI recognition models that are now FDA approved.

The progress is amazing, and this is just the first stage.

The Future

AI is truly great with promise to augment future superhuman doctors. The pace of progress is incredible.

How do we get this technology into the hands of doctors? And how do we integrate this technology into
current infrastructure, which was created with great care to protect patient data?

We recently announced a new GPU computing platform, called Clara, that accelerates imaging of different
modalities, neural network architectures of all types and any approach of visualization — from rasterization,
to volumetric, to ray tracing. Clara is built for the datacenter, extending our offering from embedded in
medical devices, workstations, on-prem datacenters, or any and every cloud. Clara can be used to run the
latest breakthroughs in medical imaging, virtually, and upgrade the world’s 3 million medical instruments
instantly.

It’s one architecture — with the same software that can run everywhere.

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We partner with leaders in healthcare. In medical imaging, we have great partnerships with GE, Siemens,
Philips and Nuance. We recently announced a new partnership with Canon Medical Systems to put AI
supercomputers in hospitals. We partner with leading research hospitals — including Massachusetts General
Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Mayo Clinic — the National Institutes of Health and startups
like Paige.AI and PathAI, which are working on AI-powered computational pathology.

All of us have one purpose — to empower future doctors with superhuman capabilities so that better
healthcare can be provided.

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