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Inside Nvidia's Pascal-powered Tesla P100: What's the big deal?

hattivat

Simple - autopilot. Lightning-quick recognition of pedestrians, other cars, road boundaries, etc. with stellar reliability regardless of conditions (rain, dust, etc.) is absolutely essential for the development of autonomous cars and a decidedly non-trivial computing task. You need advanced neural networks for that, and nowadays these run on GPUs (CPUs are ~10x slower for this application).

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