NVIDIA, led by CEO Jensen Huang, made a significant presence at the Berlin Summit with a keynote centered on the fusion of AI capabilities and digital twin technologies to advance climate research.
The keynote drew participants from various categories, including government policymakers, highlighting NVIDIA’s belief in the potential of accelerated computing, particularly through their own offerings, to enable climate researchers to achieve unprecedented possibilities. This advancement is vital for helping countries formulate future plans with climate changes thrown into the mix that is once only vaguely predictable.
The discussion aligned with the Earth Virtualization Engines initiative, which leverages AI and HPC for climate predictions, particularly through their Earth-2 digital twin program.
Jensen Huang mentioned three essential breakthroughs needed to achieve their goals:
- Fast and high-resolution climate simulation at a scale of a couple of kilometers.
- Precise emulation of climate physics with remarkable speed and accuracy.
- Managing the massive data generated by ‘Point 2’ efficiently through NVIDIA Omniverse.
The NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip stands out as the best hardware, delivering up to 10 times higher performance for applications running large-scale data, such as weather prediction software.
Jensen also introduced NVIDIA Modulus, an open-source framework dedicated to physics-based machine learning models, including the FourCastNet global, data-driven weather forecasting model. This framework was exemplified by its impressive ability to accurately predict the path of Hurricane Harvey by incorporating the Coriolis force.
Accelerated computing played a crucial role in all these endeavors, offering the power needed to drive such innovations.
Cloud computing further complements the progress by enabling interactive visualization of high-resolution global climate data, allowing monitoring and prediction of climate shifts and weather changes for any city, from Berlin to Tokyo, Buenos Aires, and beyond.
Jensen emphasized NVIDIA’s continuous efforts to bring powerful computing solutions, both hardware and software, that were once thought impossible just a few years ago.
