"Up to now NVIDIA developer community has more than 160 million people!" One year later, Greg Estes, vice president bye NVIDIA Developer Program, surprises conceal his feelings to the data.
Indeed, NVIDIA developer project was achieved in the past year made great progress and development, simply comes down to AI technology in the past for a long time to show explosive growth, such as the traditional medical industry, particularly hospital radiologist by AI technical try to complete all kinds of effective medical image diagnosis. It was observed that, whether it is part of the retail industry store checkout and to prevent theft of merchandise; or for today's hottest 5G communication function SDK development, help AI techniques are not to be underestimated.
Of course, in addition to realize AI technology continues to drive the development of all areas of in-depth reality outside, Greg Estes stressed that the surge in the number of developers is one of the most prominent eco-virtuous cycle of development. For NVIDIA, China has become the developer has the largest number of countries in the world, its growth rate is second to none. Data show, NVIDIA developer projects per month can have more than 10,000 registered developers in China, the total number is now exceeded 300,000. Why such a large developer camp should join the developer program NVIDIA-led? Crystal feel less DLI, namely deep learning institute should be one of the focus can not be ignored.
DLI as NVIDIA depth study project on a global scale, the goal is to allow more developers to know how to make the first time a mature depth learning applications, so the internal NVIDIA often called "combat training", after all, for the current development market observer projects, learn to "DIY" increasingly become the key to the field. In DLI training, as long as the developer can carry computer learning courses anytime, anywhere, covering many technical details of the model training, tuning, verification, deployment practices.
"Developers can get a good experience in the DLI in training, in addition to being timely basis technical documentation provided outside, in the complicated technology forum, NVIDIA engineers can join to interact; more importantly, participating developers can obtain the first time since the inquiry many SDK and use. "Greg Estes representation. It is crystal less understood, NVIDIA has provided more than 100 kinds of SDK and development framework based on the CUDA architecture for the developers, and completed 500 for this update several times in the past year of time.
Specifically, NVIDIA side stressed, CUDA as a basis for the core, only downloads this year has been far more than 5 million times, the advantage can be applied to almost all types of devices, which is attracting so many developers to join one of the main reasons. Based on this SDK provides a variety of software libraries, etc. can play a positive role in supporting development, whether it is popular to accelerate computing technology, expand or enhance the operational level.
In addition, to assist in the further development of China's DLI, Greg Estes admits increasingly heavy investment in the country, including gradually expand the scale of cooperation between universities, cultural training course content, support for start-ups, research in the field of close cooperation and an increase in innovative curriculum and other aspects. In this regard, the grain less that in 2019 in China, NVIDIA and the addition of 10 DLI courses for developers to learn.
Carefully observe the new curriculum, we found that 10 courses are part of the basic curriculum, it is simply by learning these courses can be extended to many other knowledge in the field of innovation be applied. For example there is a "How the use of multi-GPU-depth study" the amount of courses, which not only involves the AI field of basic science knowledge, but also covers a lot of new applications, say how to achieve the scale of the depth of learning in the new curriculum using multiple GPU to solve more difficult problems.
"We chose the addition of such a course, one reason is that these areas may produce more important role NVIDIA future business growth; on the other hand, these courses has been relatively developer attention and popularity on a global scale, of course other more important. that we believe that these types of courses will further expand its field of application development help, and not just let everyone playing circle around NVIDIA's product line, but the church understand and use NVIDIA's product matrix so simple. "
One thing to note, NVIDIA launched a new course at the same time, during the first time more complex content may be taught by specialized teachers; but the latter part of the course will mature into the cloud altar developers freedom to learn, so from data introduced to maturity launch may be some time interval. It is said that the future course of the DLI increase in reference to some progress in the field of innovation be supplemented, such as Clara medical services platform, Isaac robot service platform.
In the interview, Greg Estes also stressed that progress in cooperation in the areas of research, such as new project called "NVIDIA AI Lab", mainly involving cooperation with some of the country's leading academic ability of colleges and universities in scientific research, through diversification projects, and R & D team docking, etc., of course, also covers aspects of financial support. In addition, NVIDIA also attaches great importance to support start-ups, help foster healthy growth of these companies, which help to complete a wide variety of applications developed on the CUDA platform, he led the development of this progress. It is understood that there are already more than 5500 start-up companies to participate in the training, both in volume and 10 is increasing every day.
You can see, NVIDIA developer program for universities, start-ups, as well as the "cloud" of the major vendors, including Ali, Baidu, Google, etc., to provide a variety of support; at the same time, by DLI project to develop and train the next generation of developers, when these developers out of the university in-depth business, to boost its development through start-up incubator Inception project. Can be found, NVIDIA entire business model is actually based on an ongoing basis to open up new markets carried over, more to pay attention to those markets have not been widespread concern that this process does require courage, but born from NVIDIA gene, the challenge is something to be enjoyable thing.
