NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) originally started in 2009 and competitors perceived it as a self-serving show to push the company’s own GPU programming language, CUDA. Well, years later CUDA has caught on and GTC has become one of the premiere events in the world where the highest performance GPU technologies and research are discussed. It’s still underwritten by NVIDIA and funded mostly by ecosystem partners, but not necessarily exclusionary. Over the years of GTC’s existence the conference has served as a pretty good signaling of what is to come in the current year and years beyond when it comes to high performance graphics. In previous years, NVIDIA talked about the flexibility of the GPU in HPC (high performance computing) and the relevance of GPUs in automotive and we are starting to see all of that come to fruition. More recently, we have started to see GPUs start to play more in neural networks, deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI). This year’s show promises to bring many of these trends together and introduce new ones as well.

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