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Time of India
15-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
India Space Congress to begin on June 25 in Delhi; bring together policymakers, industry leaders
Policymakers, diplomats and industry leaders from several countries will gather here for the fourth edition of the India Space Congress (ISC) on June 25 to deliberate on the advances and challenges in the nascent but burgeoning private space sector in the country. The three-day event, organized by the Satcom Industry Association-India, is expected to see participation from 40 countries including Italy, Norway, Australia, and Hungary, the organisers said. "ISC 2025 will serve as a matchmaking hub for institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, and private equity firms keen to tap into India's expanding space economy, projected to reach USD 44 billion by 2033," Anil Prakash, Director General, SIA-India , said in a statement here. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Belly Fat Removal Without Surgery in India: The Price Might Surprise You Belly Fat Removal | Search Ads Get Info Undo The theme for the three-day conference is 'Pioneering Innovation in Space Tech: India's Journey Towards Global Partnerships'. A special US-India roundtable will focus on accelerating innovation and collaboration through emerging opportunities to assess India's progress in extending Earth Observation solutions to the Global South for shared prosperity, further cementing international cooperation, Prakash said. Live Events "The discussions will also spotlight curated defence sessions and India's space contribution to the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), especially in light of present geopolitical challenges ," said Subbarao Pavuluri, President, SIA-India.
Mint
12-06-2025
- Science
- Mint
Nvidia ‘Climate in a Bottle' opens a view into Earth's future. What will we do with it?
Nvidia has unveiled a new generative foundation model that it says enables simulations of Earth's global climate with an unprecedented level of resolution. As is so often the case with powerful new technology, however, the question is what else humans will do with it. The company expects that climate researchers will build on top of its new AI-powered model to make climate predictions that focus on five-kilometer areas. Previous leading-edge global climate models typically don't drill below 25 to 100 kilometers. Researchers using the new model may be able to predict conditions decades into the future with a new level of precision, providing information that could help efforts to mitigate climate change or its effects. A 5-kilometer resolution may help capture vertical movements of air in the lower atmosphere that can lead to certain kinds of thunderstorms, for example, and that might be missed with other models. And to the extent that high-resolution near-term forecasts are more accurate, the accuracy of longer-term climate forecasts will improve in turn, because the accuracy of such predictions compounds over time. The model, branded by Nvidia as cBottle for 'Climate in a Bottle," compresses the scale of Earth observation data 3,000 times and transforms it into ultra-high-resolution, queryable and interactive climate simulations, according to Dion Harris, senior director of high-performance computing and AI factory solutions at Nvidia. It was trained on high-resolution physical climate simulations and estimates of observed atmospheric states over the past 50 years. It will take years, of course, to know just how accurate the model's long-term predictions turn out to be. Nvidia says it has run tests on historic data to confirm that cBottle would have predicted the climate that actually eventually followed. The model also has a promising pedigree as part of Nvidia's Earth-2 platform, which is used to create digital twins of the planet. Nvidia introduced it four years ago to advance weather forecasting and climate science. Scientific research institutions and policymakers, including the Alan Turing Institute of AI and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, are actively exploring the new model, Nvidia said Tuesday at the ISC 2025 computing conference in Hamburg. Bjorn Stevens, director of the Planck Institute, said it 'represents a transformative leap in our ability to understand, predict and adapt to the world around us." 'By harnessing Nvidia's advanced AI and accelerated computing, we're building a digital twin of the planet," Stevens added, 'marking a new era where climate science becomes accessible and actionable for all, enabling informed decisions that safeguard our collective future." It's easy to imagine other decisions based on cBottle simulations, though, that would be more parochial in nature. Will home insurance companies withdraw from additional markets now, for example, because simulations using cBottle predict growing flood or fire risks 10 years out? What happens to property values and property tax revenue in areas like those? And what might governments of the world do in response to climate forecasts on a five-kilometer scale years in the future? Predicting conditions that could lead to food or water shortages might enable officials and residents to better prepare. But great powers' jockeying over the Arctic Circle might equally intensify if they believe they know exactly where and how many new sea lanes will open. The Earth-2 platform is in various states of deployment at weather agencies from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S. to G42, an Abu Dhabi-based holding company focused on AI, and the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction in Taiwan. Spire Global, a provider of data analytics in areas such as climate and global security, has used Earth-2 to help improve its weather forecasts by three orders of magnitude with regards to speed and cost over the last three or four years, according to Peter Platzer, co-founder and executive chairman. The company, which gathers data from its fleet of low-Earth-orbit satellites, built its own technology on top of Earth-2, he said. It was an early adopter of Earth-2. Tasks that once required eight hours to complete can now be executed in three minutes or less, Platzer added. 'The dramatic acceleration of processing power is the massive thing," he said. Along with time, money has been the other major constraint on more-powerful forecasts. The cost of running a high-resolution weather simulation every hour for a full year is $3 million if you do it the traditional way, on CPUs, according to Nvidia. The company said its CorrDiff generative AI model running on its GPUs can perform that task for $60,000. For Platzer, the savings mean weather predictions of 15 or 45 days went from being not useful to valuable, according to Platzer. That is 'far beyond what was previously thought possible," he said. The new models still don't provide 100% certainty. They don't state that the weather or climate will be one thing or another, but rather provide probabilities for certain outcomes. If you watched those percentage-based predictions about who would win the 2016 presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, you know what that means. Even a very high chance isn't the same as a sure thing. That uncertainty might give Climate in a Bottle-based model users appropriate humility and caution when considering how to react to a projection about three decades in the future. Or it might lead them to make a decision with big implications and costs, emboldened by the imprimatur of advanced AI, only to have bet on an outcome that never arrives. Write to Steven Rosenbush at
Business Wire
02-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
GigaIO to Showcase Next-Generation AI Fabric Technology at ISC 2025
CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GigaIO, a pioneer in scalable edge-to-core AI platforms for all accelerators that are easy to deploy and manage, will showcase its latest innovations at ISC High Performance 2025, taking place June 10-13 in Hamburg, Germany. Visitors to stand H22 can see how GigaIO's revolutionary AI fabric technology, which seamlessly bridges from edge to core with a dynamic, open platform built for any accelerator, powers its two flagship products, SuperNODE and Gryf. "GigaIO's rail-optimized, PCIe-based AI fabric topologies offer up to 3.7x improved collective performance with an accelerator-agnostic design, ensuring adaptability across diverse AI workloads." SuperNODE is the world's most powerful and energy-efficient scale-up AI computing platform, and Gryf is the first suitcase-sized AI supercomputer that brings datacenter-class computing power directly to the edge. GigaIO's architecture, powered by its AI fabric, effortlessly integrates GPUs and inference accelerators from NVIDIA, AMD, d-Matrix, and more, enabling organizations to slash power and cooling requirements by up to 30% without compromising performance. GigaIO's AI fabric implements a native PCIe Gen5 architecture that enables direct memory-semantic communication between distributed computing resources, eliminating protocol translation overhead while maintaining sub-microsecond latencies for GPU-to-GPU transfers. This enables AI workloads to achieve near-linear scaling across pooled accelerators that appear as if locally attached to the host. GigaIO's groundbreaking paper, 'Rail Optimized PCIe Topologies for LLMs,' was selected for presentation at ISC 2025 on Thursday, 12 June 2025, from 9:00am to 9:25am in Hall F (2nd floor). This research explores optimized network architectures for large language model training and inference. Scaling LLMs efficiently requires innovative approaches to GPU interconnects, and GigaIO's rail-optimized, PCIe-based AI fabric topologies offer up to 3.7x improved collective performance with an accelerator-agnostic design, ensuring adaptability across diverse AI workloads. 'ISC 2025 arrives at a critical juncture, as AI workloads demand unprecedented hardware resources, making optimized infrastructure essential for organizations to achieve their performance targets,' said Alan Benjamin, CEO of GigaIO. 'Our expanded conference participation will demonstrate how our PCIe-based fabric technology delivers superior performance for LLM training and inference, while dramatically reducing power consumption and total cost of ownership.' Stop by stand H22 at ISC 2025 or schedule a meeting during the event with the GigaIO team. About GigaIO GigaIO redefines scalable AI infrastructure, seamlessly bridging from edge to core with a dynamic, open platform built for every accelerator. Reduce power draw with GigaIO's SuperNODE, the world's most powerful and energy-efficient scale-up AI computing platform. Run AI jobs anywhere with Gryf, the world's first suitcase-sized AI supercomputer that brings datacenter-class computing power directly to the edge. Both are easy to deploy and manage, utilizing GigaIO's patented AI fabric that provides ultra-low latency and direct memory-to-memory communication between GPUs for near-perfect scaling for AI workloads. Visit or follow on Twitter (X) and LinkedIn.
Hindustan Times
30-04-2025
- General
- Hindustan Times
Pune students shine in CISCE results
Several students from Pune city have shone in the classes 10 and 12 results declared by Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) on Wednesday. As per data shared by the CISCE Board, 99.09% students have passed the class 10 ICSE exam whereas 99.02% students have passed the class 12 ISC exam. Both the ICSE and ISC 2025 results have been published on CISCE's official website; candidates need their login credentials to download their marksheets. At St Mary's School, Disha Lunkad has topped the class 12 ISC exam from the science stream with 98.75%; Ali Latif has topped the class 12 ISC exam from the commerce stream with 98%; and Aarefah Kakajiwala has topped the class 12 ISC exam from humanities with 95.25%. Avisha Shiju John from the same school has topped the class 10 ICSE exam (girls' section) with 99.4% whereas Vihaan Mittal has topped the class 10 ICSE exam (boys' section) with 98.2%. Caroline Diane Ross, principal, St Mary's School, Pune, said, 'Our students have demonstrated exceptional academic excellence. We are very proud of them. This outstanding performance is the fruit of the labour put in by our students and teachers, and the enduring values of St Mary's School.' Students of Vidya Pratishthan's Magarpatta City Public School have achieved excellent results in the class 10 ICSE exam. The school has maintained its tradition of a 100% pass rate. Principal Chandrika Banerjee congratulated the students and teachers for this achievement. Manasvi Deshpande has topped the school with an impressive 98.8%; followed by Aditya Gupta, Sahil Gupta, Yash Jagdale, and Sharvi Shimpi each securing second position with 98.6%; and Bhargav Kavitke standing third with 98.4%. The school reported that a remarkable 33 out of its 110 students scored above 95% whereas 40 students scored 89 to 94%. The class 10 ICSE exam was taken by 252,557 students whereas 99,551 students took the class 12 ISC exam. In the class 10 ICSE exam, the pass percentage for girls stands at 99.37% whereas that for boys stands at 98.84%. In the class 12 ISC exam, the pass percentage for girls stands at 99.45% whereas that for boys stands at 98.64%. This year, girls have outperformed boys in both the exams. As per the information shared by the CISCE Board, students were required to score a minimum of 33% in each subject to pass the ICSE exam. Similarly, students were required to score a minimum of 40% in each subject to pass the ISC exam. Students who were unable to meet these criteria in one or two subjects will be eligible to appear for the improvement exams in July.
