Bits & Pixels using AI for Good.........

A whirlwind tour of tech & AI for socio-environmental impact.

1. Bits & Pixels
ALISON B. LOWNDES | SENIOR SCIENTIST | GLOBAL AI

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JOHAN ROCKSTRÖM, ET AL

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https://top500.org/lists/green500/2024/06/

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7. With NVIDIA DRIVE Sim features such as road
elevation, road markings, islands, traffic
signals, signs, and vertical posts are replicated
at centimeter-level accuracy. Autonomous
vehicles can drive millions of miles in a wide
range of simulated scenarios so they hit the
road running, safely.
NVIDIA DRIVE SimTurbocharges
Developer Productivity to Get Self-
Driving Cars on the Road

9. Earth-2 Platform
Connecting Complex Simulation, Data and AI Workflows
Renderer
Modulus
Omniverse
Training Inference
Interactive
Visualisation
GPU
acceleratd
Simulation
AI Enterprise

12. Produce an AI Weather Forecast with a few lines of code
fromearth2studio.models.pximportFCN
fromearth2studio.dataimportGFS
fromearth2studio.ioimportZarrBackend
importearth2studio.runas run
# Load FourCastNetpretrained model
model= FCN.load_model(FCN.load_default_package())
# Create the data source
data= GFS()
# Create a ZarrIOBackend
io= ZarrBackend()
# Run 20 steps of inference
output_datastore= run.deterministic(["2024-01-01"], 20, model, data, io)
https://github.com/NVIDIA/earth2studio

13. FourCastNet
•10,000x faster
•10,000x more power efficient
•10,000+ ensemble members
•Better prediction of storm tracks
•Reduced uncertainty
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.11214

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Lockheed Martin and NVIDIA Selected by NOAA for Earth Observation
Building a Climate Research Data Pipeline with NVIDIA Omniverse
Anomaly
Detection
AI
Algorithms
Data
Fusion
Sensor
Data
Ground
Data
Satellite
Data
BUILD
PHYSICAL WORLDDIGITAL TWIN
DESIGN OPERATE
SIMULATE

16. Physics Simulation in Omniverse
Multiple Ways to Ingest and Simulate Physics in Omniverse
NVIDIA PhysX
Rigid & Soft Body Dynamics, Destruction, Fluid & Fire
Import Physics Instance
Offline from External 3rd Party Application
NVIDIA Modulus
Accelerated with Physics-ML Platform

19. FP8
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.05433.pdf

20. Generative AI Across Industries
Defect Inspection in Factories
Real-Time Asset Tracking Autonomous Planning & NavigationOperational Efficiency in Warehouses
Human-Robot InteractionRobot Programming

21. LLAMA 2
STABLE DIFFUSION XL STARCODER2
NVIDIA AI Foundation Models
Enterprise-ready, performance optimized models
•State-of-the-art community, commercial and NVIDIA-built
models
•Performance-optimized for NVIDIA GPU-accelerated stack
•Easy model customization and deployment path with
NVIDIA NIM
GEMMA
MOLMIM
MIXTRAL 8X7B

22. NVIDIA NIM Microservices for Generative AI Inference
Available now as part of NVIDIA AI Enterprise 5.0; $1/GPU/HR
Simplified developmentof AI application
that can run in enterprise environments
Day 0 support for all generative AI models
providing choice across the ecosystem
Best accuracy for enterprise by enabling tuning
with proprietary data sources
Improved TCO with best latency and throughput
running on accelerated infrastructure
Enterprise software with feature branches,
validation and support
Deploy anywhere and maintain
controlof generative AI applications and
data
Optimizedinference engines
NVIDIA NIM
Domain specific code
Support for custom models
Industry standard APIs
DGX &
DGX
Cloud
Prebuilt container and Helm
chart

23. Announcing NVIDIA Blackwell
The Engine of the New Industrial Revolution
DECOMPRESSION ENGINE
800 GB/s
2nd GEN TRANSFORMER ENGINE
FP4/FP6 Tensor Core
AI SUPERCHIP
208B Transistors
5
th
GENERATION NVLINK
Scales to 576 GPUs
RAS ENGINE
100% In-System
Self-Test
SECURE AI
Full Performance
Encryption & TEE
Built to Democratize Trillion-Parameter AI
20 PetaFLOPS of AI performance on a single GPU
4X Training | 30X Inference | 25X Energy Efficiency & TCO
Expanding AI Datacenter Scale to beyond100K GPUs

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—Marc AndreessenFoundera16z VC
https://pmarca.substack.com/p/why-ai-will-save-the-world
“..what AI could be:
A way to make everything we
care about better.”

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PERFORMANCE
OPTIMIZED
DEPLOY
ANYWHERE
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Scanned for CVEs, malware,
crypto
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28. ASTROPHYSICAL TWINS
Digital twins need not be confined to the Earth
SOLAR DYNAMICS JUPITER’S ATMOSPHERE ROVER ON MARSORBITAL DEBRIS

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30. MEETCARTER

31. CHATTO CARTER

32. NeuralAngelo
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Character animation

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Imitation Learning

38. Orbital
Sidekick

39. Orbital Sidekick’s GHOSt2
fleet now in orbit

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42. OPTION 2
WORLD SIMULATION IS THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER SCIENCE CHALLENGE
VIRTUAL WORLD

43. OPTION 2
WORLD SIMULATION IS THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER SCIENCE CHALLENGE
VIRTUAL WORLD
Rendering

44. OPTION 2
WORLD SIMULATION IS THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER SCIENCE CHALLENGE
VIRTUAL WORLD
Physics
Rendering

45. WORLD SIMULATION IS THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER SCIENCE CHALLENGE
VIRTUAL WORLD
Rendering
Physics
AI

46. SUPERCOMPUTING BRINGS WORLD SIMULATION TO AN INFLECTION POINT
VIRTUAL WORLD
Rendering
Physics
AI

47. Sensors
Controllers
Humans
PHYSICAL WORLD
Real-Time Data
Synchronization
Control Signal
DIGITAL TWINS ARE A NEW CLASS OF WORLD SIMULATION
VIRTUAL WORLD
Rendering
Physic
s
AI

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EXPLORE OMNIVERSE ENTERPRISE
SEEYOU IN OMNIVERSE
DOWNLOAD OMNIVERSE
nvidia.com/omniverse
DEVELOP ON OMNIVERSE
DOCUMENTATION
docs.omniverse.nvidia.com
FORUMS
omniverse.nvidia.com/forums
TUTORIALS AND
WEBINARS
omniverse.nvidia.com/tutorials
DISCORD
discord.gg/nvidiaomniverse

49. Activate the Potential Within Your Organization
Across Every Industry and Job Function
Coding Copilot
Summarization
Kinetica Telco Copilot
Telco Customer Service Avatar SAP CRM Assistant
Software Security Analysis
Car Configurator
ServiceNow Customer
Relations Management

50. World Record Route Optimization
NVIDIA cuOpt

51. Get Started with NVIDIA API Catalog
•Experience optimized foundation models
•Start prototyping for free
•Deploy anywhere
•Get access to NVIDIA AI Enterprise 90-day eval
ai.nvidia.com

52. Industrial Metaverse Opportunities Exist at Every Scale
Every physical process will be software-defined
Product
Factory
City
Nation
Planetary
Galaxy

53. NVIDIA H100 GPU

54. Fully Connected with
NVLink Switches

55. One Giant GPU

56. NVIDIA DGX H100

58. NVIDIA Quantum-2
InfiniBand Networking

59. Scaling to Hundreds and
Thousands of DGX Nodes

60. DGX H100
AI Supercomputer

61. Chassis
•Multi-Generation Standardized for TTM and
Improved ROI
•Configurable into 100s of Solutions
•Integrates into Cloud and Enterprise Data Centers
Introducing MGX
Open modular server design for accelerated computing

62. Omniverse OVX Server
2U | x86 | 4 L40 | BF-3 | 2 CX-7 | 6 PCIE
MGX
Open modular server design for accelerated computing

63. Grace Omniverse OVX Server
2U | Grace | 4 L40 | BF-3 | 2 CX-7 | 6 PCIE
MGX
Open modular server design for accelerated computing

64. Grace Cloud Graphics Server
2U | Grace | 10 L4 | BF-3 | 11 PCIE
MGX
Open modular server design for accelerated computing

65. Hopper NVL Gen AI Inference Server
4U | x86 | 8 H100 NVL | 2 BF-3 | 10 PCIE
MGX
Open modular server design for accelerated computing

66. Grace Hopper Liquid-Cooled Server for HPC
1U | 2 Grace Hopper | 2 BF-3 | 4 PCIE
MGX
Open modular server design for accelerated computing

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68. THANK YOU
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