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Path Tracing Optimizations in Indiana Jones™: Opacity MicroMaps and Compaction of Dynamic BLASs

A still from the game, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.The first post in this series, Path Tracing Optimization in Indiana Jones™: Shader Execution Reordering and Live State Reductions, covered ray-gen shader…A still from the game, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

The first post in this series, Path Tracing Optimization in Indiana Jones™: Shader Execution Reordering and Live State Reductions, covered ray-gen shader level optimizations that sped up the main path-tracing pass (“TraceMain”) of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle™. This second blog post covers additional GPU optimizations that were made at the level of the ray-tracing acceleration…

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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 Circle™…

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 Circle in 2024, we used Shader Execution Reordering (SER), a feature available on NVIDIA GPUs since the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series, to improve the GPU performance. To optimize the use of SER in the main path-tracing pass (), we used the NVIDIA…

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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…

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 California, San Diego. That finding, which they discovered using AI, could result in new treatment options. In a paper published in April in the scientific journal Cell, a team at UCSD found that the gene PHGDH—previously considered a…

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Into the Omniverse: Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation Finds Smoothest Flow With AI-Driven Digital Twins

Leading solution providers are delivering real-time physical digital twins with OpenUSD, RTX, and NVIDIA Blackwell.

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The Transformers Library: standardizing model definitions

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Time to Slay: ‘DOOM: The Dark Ages’ Looms on GeForce NOW

Steel clashes and war drums thunder as a new age of battle dawns — one that will test even the mightiest Slayer. This GFN Thursday, DOOM: The Dark Ages — the bold medieval-inspired prequel to DOOM and DOOM Eternal — is available for GeForce NOW premium members, aka Ultimate and Performance members, to stream from
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Visa Makes Payments Personalized and Secure With AI

Think tap to pay — but smarter and safer. Visa is tapping into AI to enhance services for its global network of customers, focused on fraud prevention, personalization and agentic commerce. Sarah Laszlo, senior director of Visa’s machine learning platform, joined the AI Podcast to discuss how artificial intelligence is powering the next generation of
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Build Custom Reasoning Models with Advanced, Open Post-Training Datasets

How the Llama-Nemotron 30M Post Training Dataset was createdSynthetic data has become a standard part of large language model (LLM) post-training procedures. Using a large number of synthetically generated examples from…How the Llama-Nemotron 30M Post Training Dataset was created

Synthetic data has become a standard part of large language model (LLM) post-training procedures. Using a large number of synthetically generated examples from either a single or cohort of open-source, commercially permissible LLMs, a base LLM is finetuned either with supervised finetuning or RLHF to gain instruction-following and reasoning skills. This process can be seen as a knowledge…

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Get Trained and Certified at GTC Paris at VivaTech 2025

image of the paris skylineJoin us at GTC Paris on June 10th and choose from six full-day, instructor-led workshops.image of the paris skyline

Join us at GTC Paris on June 10th and choose from six full-day, instructor-led workshops.

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NVIDIA TensorRT Unlocks FP4 Image Generation  for NVIDIA Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs

Four tiles of city scenes.The launch of the NVIDIA Blackwell platform ushered in a new era of improvements in generative AI technology. At its forefront is the newly launched GeForce RTX…Four tiles of city scenes.

The launch of the NVIDIA Blackwell platform ushered in a new era of improvements in generative AI technology. At its forefront is the newly launched GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs for PCs and workstations that boast fifth-generation Tensor Cores with 4-bit floating point compute (FP4)—a must-have for accelerating advanced generative AI models like FLUX from Black Forest Labs. As the latest image…

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