NVIDIA GTC 2014 Recap: Pascal, TITAN Z, Deep-learning & More

Being a developer’s conference, NVIDIA’s GTC always boasts tremendous potential to show us some truly awesome technology – and 2014′s show delivered in spades. In this short article, we take a look at some of the biggest products or technologies announced at the show, and sprinkle in some opinion to make for a balanced breakfast.

In the summer of 2008, NVIDIA held an event in San Jose that centered around visual computing. Called NVISION, it featured seminars for developers to attend, a full-blown LAN party, and vendor exhibits. At around the same time, GPGPU technology had been gaining some serious traction, with NVIDIA leading the pack with its CUDA programming model. The growth and overall importance of GPGPU inevitably led NVIDIA to shelf NVISION and replace it with GTC, or GPU Technology Conference.

While I had attended that NVISION in 2008, last week’s GTC was the first I’ve gone to. In some ways, despite the altered focus of the event, it all felt familiar – no doubt helped by the fact that both NVISION and this latest GTC were held at the San Jose Convention Center. Prior to attending GTC last week, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, though I guessed it’d be similar to Intel’s Developer Forum – only with an NVIDIA focus. After-the-fact, I can’t say that assumption was far off.

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