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With Great Power Comes Great Portability: Enter Tegra K1 CUDA Vision Challenge, Win Jetson TK1

 

What if I told you that you could have the power of a supercomputer in the palm of your hands? What if I told you that you could win one in a recently announced contest from NVIDIA? Well, believe it because it is true. Read on to learn more about this wonderful piece of hardware and how you can participate to win one of your very own.

April 25, 2014 – Will Park

Attention enthusiasts, developers and makers. Are you working on a new embedded computing application?

Meet the Jetson TK1 Developer Kit. It’s the world’s first mobile supercomputer for embedded systems, putting unprecedented computing performance in a low-power, portable and fully programmable package.

It’s the ultimate platform for developing next-generation computer vision solutions for robotics, medical devices, and automotive applications.

And we’re giving away 50 of them as part of our Tegra K1 CUDA Vision Challenge.

In addition to the Tegra K1 processor, the Jetson TK1 DevKit is equipped with 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage and a host of ports and connectivity options.

And, because it offers full support for CUDA, the most pervasive, easy-to-use parallel computing platform and programming model, it’s much easier to program than the FPGA, custom ASIC and DSP processors that are typically used in today’s embedded systems.

Jetson TK1 is based on the Kepler computing architecture, the same technology powering today’s supercomputers, professional workstations and high-end gaming rigs. It has 192 CUDA cores, delivering over 300 GFLOPs of performance, and also provides full support for OpenGL 4.4, and CUDA 6.0, as well as the GPU-accelerated OpenCV.

Best of all it’s “plug-and-play” out of the box, and boots directly to an Ubuntu desktop.

Entering the Tegra K1 CUDA Vision Challenge is easy. Just tell us about your embedded application idea. All proposals must be submitted April 30, 2014. Entries will be judged for innovation, impact on research or industry, public availability, and quality of work.

By the end of May, the top 50 submissions will be awarded one of the first Jetson TK1 DevKits to roll off the production line, as well as access to technical support documents and assets.

The five most noteworthy Jetson TK1 breakthroughs may get a chance to share their work at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in 2015.

Source: NVIDIA Blog

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