UC Santa Barbara Professor Philip Lubin and his team, with the support of NVIDIA, are using AI and NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs to accelerate the detection of hazardous asteroids on a collision course with Earth. They have received funding from NASA for their PI-Terminal Planetary Defense initiative, which aims to detect threats earlier and pulverize them using an array of hypervelocity kinetic penetrators. By training a neural network called You Only Look Once Darknet, the team has achieved faster and more accurate threat recognition compared to traditional methods. The NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPU has significantly accelerated their image analysis process, reducing the processing time from 10 seconds to 0.15 seconds. The GPU's 48GB memory capacity has also facilitated handling large datasets for training and simulations. The team combines custom-developed codes and utilizes the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility for various simulations related to planetary defense.
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