The world of big data analytics is constantly seeking ways to accelerate processing and reduce infrastructure costs. Apache Spark has become a leading platform... The...
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... NVIDIA recently released cuEmbed, a high-performance,...
AI Helps Uncover Potential Alzheimer’s Cause and Treatment
A gene that can be an early indicator for Alzheimer’s disease actually is a cause of the degenerative-brain disorder, said researchers at the University of......
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... The first post...
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...