{"id":83557,"date":"2015-11-17T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=83557"},"modified":"2015-11-17T16:46:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T14:46:24","slug":"nvidias-pascal-gpus-to-assist-in-hurricane-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83557-nvidias-pascal-gpus-to-assist-in-hurricane-tracking","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA’s Pascal GPUs to assist in hurricane tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether they\u2019re using GDDR5X<\/a> or HBM2<\/a>, early reports suggest that NVIDIA\u2019s next family of GPUs, Pascal, are quite the graphical processing beasts.<\/p>\n

More than 17 billion transistors, thanks to their 16nm FinFET process, which is more than twice the transistors of the current GeForce king the GTX Titan X<\/a>, at a still quite impressive 8 billion, means a heck of a lot parallel processing potential.<\/p>\n

Of course, as gamers, we can\u2019t help but imagining the future of gaming and the sorts of graphical fidelity that can be achieved with modern APIs like DirectX 12<\/a> or Vulkan<\/a> and sheer processing compute at their beckoning call.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s that very same parallel processing power that gives GPUs an edge in any number of computing scenarios over general processors.<\/p>\n

Initiatives like Folding@home<\/a> and the amounts of power that can be produced<\/a> as a result is proof of that.<\/p>\n

So imagine what the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US NOAA) could do with 760 Pascal GPUs. They plan on tracking hurricanes; and it\u2019s a good thing too. General Manager of Nvidia\u2019s CUDA technology, Ian Buck,\u00a0has expressed his excitement, and not just because they\u2019re selling a bunch of units.<\/p>\n

At the moment, says The Register<\/a>, the NOAA\u2019s current system has the compute power to handle horizontal resolutions of up to 12kms. That means that the globe\u2019s weather is tracked by means of a grid, each grid point represents an area of 12km, end-to-end. The new Pascal-powered system will allow significant improvements, granting grid points as small as 3km.<\/p>\n

What that equates to is more accurate analysis of current weather patterns, better predictions and more lives saved in getting people out of the way of hurricanes.<\/p>\n

Just imagine what hurricane trackers and meteorologists could do with access to the Exascale supercomputer<\/a> the US is cooking up.<\/p>\n

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More next-gen GPU news<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NVIDIA testing GDDR5X for next-gen GP104-powered Pascal graphics cards<\/a><\/p>\n

Greenland, Baffin and Ellesmere: AMD\u2019s newest GPUs<\/a><\/p>\n

NVIDIA Pascal cards sport 17 billion transistors and 32GB of HBM2 VRAM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graphics cards do a lot more than graphics these days. They save lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":83559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2420,16399,1969,45,16401,14875],"class_list":["post-83557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-geforce","tag-hurricane-tracking","tag-news-2","tag-nvidia","tag-parallel-processing","tag-pascal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}