NVIDIA and Mellanox today announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox. Pursuant to the agreement, NVIDIA will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox for $125 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $6.9 billion. Once complete, the combination…
Imaging the Earth’s Interior With the Summit Supercomputer
In a new video, Jeroen Tromp a professor in the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University describes how he and his team are imaging the earth’s interior with Summit, the world’s fastest supercomputer. “The goal of our research is to image the Earth’s interior on a global scale. We’re basically 3D cartographers of the Earth’s mantle,”…
SETI: AI Helping Humanity Overcome Its Limitations
Few organizations are as bullish on AI as the SETI Institute. Best known for its ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the institute is engaged in broad range of complicated science. And for all of humanity’s natural intelligence, it’s the artificial sort that’s most likely to help us succeed long term. “AI is the fastest way to…
