From monitoring and mitigating the impact of climate change on the environment and economy, to advancing disparate domains such as robotics, precision agriculture, education and quantum computing, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is working across a broad range of areas to apply AI to Australia’s national challenges.
At NVIDIA GTC, CSIRO CIO Brendan Dalton discussed this effort with Keith Strier, vice president of Worldwide AI Initiatives at NVIDIA, during a 45-minute fireside chat.
Touching on CSIRO’s history of innovation, Dalton described how the organisation, tasked by the Australian government to lead the national scientific and industrial research agenda, invented wireless LAN in the 1990s, which led to a global boom in wireless devices.
Today CSIRO, is leading Australia’s national AI ambitions, which includes a collaboration with NVIDIA to help expand the country’s domestic AI capabilities and accelerate adoption of the technology.
This includes teaming up on a broad range of accelerated computing initiatives. One of the timeliest — physically accurate digital twins — will harness NVIDIA’s unique capabilities in graphics, scientific and high-performance computing.
“CSIRO has been using NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform for over a decade, and I envisage that this new collaboration will expand our efforts around AI research, startups and industrial ventures, grow a more robust local AI ecosystem, and support the launch of our new National AI Centre,” said Dalton.