I am a creator
Blending art and technology
To immerse our senses.
I am healer
Helping us take the next step
And see what's possible.
I am a pioneer
Finding life-saving answers
And pushing the edge to the outer limits.
I am a guardian
Defending our oceans
And the magnificent creatures that call them home.
I am a protector
Helping the Earth breathe easier
And watching over it for generations to come.
I am a storyteller
Giving emotion to words
And bringing them to life.
I am even the composer of the music.
I am AI.
Brought to life by NVIDIA,
deep learning,
and brilliant minds everywhere.
There are powerful forces shaping the world's industries.
Accelerated computing that we pioneered has supercharged scientific discovery, while providing the computer industry a path forward.
Artificial intelligence, particularly, has seen incredible advances.
With NVIDIA GPUs, computers learn, and software writes software no human can.
The AI software is delivered as a service from the cloud, performing automation at the speed of light.
Software is now composed of microservices that scale across the entire data center - treating the data center as a single unit of computing.
AI and 5G are the ingredients to kick start the fourth industrial revolution -
where automation and robotics can be deployed to far edges of the world.
There is one more miracle that we need - the metaverse - a virtual world that is a digital twin of ours.
Welcome to GTC 2021 - we are going to talk about these dynamics and more.
Let me give you the architecture of my talk.
It's organized in four stacks - this is how we work - as a full-stack computing platform company.
The flow also reflects the waves of AI and how we're expanding the reach of our platform to solve new problems and to enter new markets.
First is Omniverse - built from the ground up on NVIDIA's body of work. It's a platform to create and simulate virtual worlds.
We'll feature many applications of Omniverse, like design collaboration, simulation, and future robotic factories.
The second stack is DGX and high-performance data centers.
I'll feature BlueField, new DGXs, new chips, and the new work we're doing in AI, drug discovery, and quantum computing.
Here, I'll also talk about Arm and new Arm partnerships.
The third stack is one of our most important new platforms -
NVIDIA EGX with Aerial 5G.
Now, enterprises and industries can do AI and deploy AI on 5G.
We'll talk about NVIDIA AI and pre-trained models, like Jarvis conversational AI.
And finally,
our work with the auto industry to revolutionize the future of transportation - NVIDIA DRIVE.
We'll talk about new chips, new platforms and software, and lots of new customers.
Let's get started.
Scientists, researchers, developers, and creators are using NVIDIA to do amazing things.
Your work gets global reach with the installed base of over a billion CUDA GPUs shipped and 250 exaflops of GPU computing power in the cloud.
Two-and-a-half million developers and 7,500 startups are creating thousands of applications for accelerated computing.
We are thrilled by the growth of the ecosystem we are building together and will continue to put our heart and soul into advancing it.
Building tools for the Da Vincis of our time is our purpose. And, in doing so, we also help create the future.
Democratizing high-performance computers is one of NVIDIA's greatest contributions to science.
With just a GeForce, every student can have a supercomputer.
This is how Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya, and Hinton trained AlexNet that caught the world's attention on deep learning.
And with GPUs in supercomputers, we gave scientists a time machine.
A scientist once told me that because of NVIDIA's work, he can do his life's work - in his lifetime.
I can't think of a greater purpose.
Let me highlight a few achievements from last year.
NVIDIA is continually optimizing the full stack.
With the chips you have, your software runs faster every year, and even faster if you upgrade.
On our golden suite of important science codes, we increased performance 13-fold in the last five years,
and for some, performance doubled every year.
NAMD molecular dynamics simulator, for example, was re-architected and can now run across multiple GPUs.
Researchers led by Dr. Rommie Amaro, at UC San Diego, uses multi-GPU NAMD,
running on Oak Ridge Summit supercomputer's 20,000 NVIDIA GPUs,
to do the largest atomic simulation ever - 305 million atoms.
This work was critical to a better understanding of the COVID-19 virus and accelerated the making of the vaccine.
Dr. Amaro and her collaborators won the Gordon Bell Award for this important work.
I'm very proud to welcome Dr. Amaro and more than 100,000 of you to this year's GTC -
our largest ever by double.
We have some of the greatest computer scientists and researchers of our time speaking here.
Three Turing Award winners,
12 Gordon Bell Award winners
nine Kaggle Grand Masters -
and even 10 Oscar winners.
We're also delighted to have the brightest minds from industry, sharing their discoveries.
Leaders from every field - healthcare, auto, finance, retail, energy, internet services, every major enterprise IT company.
They are bringing you their latest work in COVID research, data science, cybersecurity, new approaches to computer graphics,
and the most recent advances in AI and robotics.
In total,
1,600 talks about the most important technologies of our time,
from the leaders in the field that are shaping our world.
Welcome to GTC.