Intermediate Technical

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May 16, 2025

R2D2: Unlocking Robotic Assembly and Contact Rich Manipulation with NVIDIA Research

This edition of NVIDIA Robotics Research and Development Digest (R2D2) explores several contact-rich manipulation workflows for robotic assembly tasks from...
9 MIN READ
May 15, 2025

Predicting Performance on Apache Spark with GPUs

The world of big data analytics is constantly seeking ways to accelerate processing and reduce infrastructure costs. Apache Spark has become a leading platform...
9 MIN READ
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May 15, 2025

Path Tracing Optimizations in Indiana Jones?: Opacity MicroMaps and Compaction of Dynamic BLASs

The first post in this series, Path Tracing Optimization in Indiana Jones?: Shader Execution Reordering and Live State Reductions, covered ray-gen shader...
13 MIN READ
May 15, 2025

Path Tracing Optimization in Indiana Jones?: Shader Execution Reordering and Live State Reductions

This post is part of the Path Tracing Optimizations in Indiana Jones? series.   While adding a path-tracing mode to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle?...
13 MIN READ
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May 15, 2025

Accelerating Embedding Lookups with cuEmbed

NVIDIA recently released cuEmbed, a high-performance, header-only CUDA library that accelerates embedding lookups on NVIDIA GPUs. If you're building...
8 MIN READ
How the Llama-Nemotron 30M Post Training Dataset was created
May 14, 2025

Build Custom Reasoning Models with Advanced, Open Post-Training Datasets

Synthetic data has become a standard part of large language model (LLM) post-training procedures. Using a large number of synthetically generated examples from...
5 MIN READ
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May 14, 2025

AI Fabric Resiliency and Why Network Convergence Matters

High-performance computing and deep learning workloads are extremely sensitive to latency. Packet loss forces retransmission or stalls in the communication...
7 MIN READ
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May 14, 2025

NVIDIA TensorRT Unlocks FP4 Image Generation ?for NVIDIA Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs

The launch of the NVIDIA Blackwell platform ushered in a new era of improvements in generative AI technology. At its forefront is the newly launched GeForce RTX...
11 MIN READ
May 13, 2025

Connect Simulations with the Real World Using NVIDIA Air Services

NVIDIA Air enables cloud-scale efficiency by creating identical replicas of real-world data center infrastructure deployments. With NVIDIA Air, you can spin up...
6 MIN READ
May 09, 2025

CUDA C++ Compiler Updates Impacting ELF Visibility and Linkage

In the next CUDA major release, CUDA 13.0, NVIDIA is introducing two significant changes to the NVIDIA CUDA Compiler Driver (NVCC) that will impact ELF...
11 MIN READ
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May 09, 2025

Applying Specialized LLMs with Reasoning Capabilities to Accelerate Battery Research

Scientific research in complex fields like battery innovation is often slowed by manual evaluation of materials, limiting progress to just dozens of candidates...
11 MIN READ
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May 08, 2025

Applying Autoencoder-Based GNNs for High-Throughput Network Anomaly Detection in NetFlow Data

As modern enterprise and cloud environments scale, the complexity and volume of network traffic increase dramatically. NetFlow is used to record metadata about...
9 MIN READ
May 08, 2025

Extending the NVIDIA Agent Intelligence Toolkit to Support New Agentic Frameworks

NVIDIA Agent Intelligence toolkit is an open-source library for efficiently connecting and optimizing teams of AI agents. It focuses on enabling developers to...
12 MIN READ
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May 08, 2025

Turbocharge LLM Training Across Long-Haul Data Center Networks with NVIDIA Nemo Framework

Multi-data center training is becoming essential for AI factories as pretraining scaling fuels the creation of even larger models, leading the demand for...
6 MIN READ
May 08, 2025

Revolutionizing Neural Reconstruction and Rendering in gsplat with 3DGUT

Realistic 3D simulation is becoming a cornerstone of modern AI and graphics, from training autonomous vehicles (AV) to powering robotics and digital twins....
5 MIN READ
May 08, 2025

Accelerate Deep Learning and LLM Inference with Apache Spark in the Cloud

Apache Spark is an industry-leading platform for big data processing and analytics. With the increasing prevalence of unstructured data—documents, emails,...
10 MIN READ