Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Volvo acquires supercomputer for self-driving cars – Nvidia – IDG.se

Nvidia supercomputer


Nvidia gives the seriously into the car business with supercomputer Drive PX 2, and the first customer will be Swedish Volvo Cars.

The water-cooled computer was shown at the CES show in the night and are thought to make myself driving cars better at recognizing the signs, lanes and objects in the environment, reports IDG News. The goal is that the car can quickly analyze the situation and determine how it should behave.

Meanwhile trained algorithm is the basis for recognition. With machine learning will be the car continually better able to handle different traffic situations, and that lesson can be uploaded in Nvidia’s cloud and then shared with the entire car fleet.

So even if Drive PX 2 initially will be used primarily to to scan the environment for solid, well-known objects will eventually become sharper. By learning to understand the circumstances and not just objects can be self-driving cars become more functional – they can learn how to distinguish an ambulance from a van, or figure out how files are routed even if the marks are snow-covered.

Read also: here is a first look at Volvo’s self-driving car Concept 26

 

 The hardware in supercomputer equivalent to “150 MacBook Pros in the trunk,” according to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. PX 2 has twelve cores, two graphics cards, and a performance of eight teraflops. Power consumption is around 250 watts.

 

 The first automaker to use Drive PX 2 is the Volvo, which according to Nvidia will install it in a hundred cars. In 2017 the company plans to start test drive automatic cars in Gothenburg, and maybe Nvidia hardware when available onboard.

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