Volvo will purchase several hundred Nvidia Drive PX 2 vehicle supercomputers as part of an effort to establish self-driving automobiles.
Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of graphics chipmaker Nvidia, disclosed the information at the company’s press conference on the eve of the 2016 International CES (the huge tech trade show in Las Vegas this week).
The new PX 2 supercomputer utilizes a Nvidia Pascal graphics refining device (GPU) as well as has 12 central processing units, or CPUs. The supercomputer could manage eight teraflops.
Huang stated the supercomputer will certainly result in more secure driving, new mobility services, as well as the redesign of urban design.
“Our vision is to produce the computing platform through which we could attain these objectives,” he claimed. “The vehicle is listening all of the time. It is a virtual copilot that will maintain you from harm’s way.”
A year earlier, Nvidia introduced its initial PX supercomputer for the automobile. The brand-new PX 2 is the computational matching of 150 Macbook Pros as well as has to do with the size of a lunch box. It could process 2,800 images per second, as well as is constructed with a 16-nanometer production process, compared with 28nm for Nvidia’s earlier Titan X.
Huang claimed that the PX2 can be used combined with a deep-learning system that Nvidia is creating. It is building a network that could discover the best ways to analyze photos automobile cameras gather as they drive down the road. The self-driving auto has to identify threats on the road, such as pedestrians, as well as signal the automobile and also the driver to the danger. The network can learn to recognize such hazards, and also will certainly get better with time.
Volvo can use this sort of network as it educates its PX 2-based vehicles to acknowledge hazards and also drive themselves.
