You can now take crash-consistent snapshots of multiple Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes attached to an EC2 instance with a single API call. You can also use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to automate the multi-volume snapshot management via creating lifecycle policies.

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Textract, which has been in preview since re:invent 2018. Amazon Textract is a managed machine learning service that automatically extracts text and structured data from virtually any document. Customers use Amazon Textract to quickly automate document workflows, processing millions of document pages in a few hours.

You can now use AWS DataSync to automatically, efficiently, and securely copy files between two Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) resources, including file systems in different AWS Regions and ones owned by different AWS accounts.  Using DataSync to copy data between EFS file systems, you can perform one-time migrations, periodic ingest for distributed workloads, or automate replication for data protection and recovery, at speeds up to 10 times faster than open-source tools.

You can now use Amazon Route 53 private Domain Name System (DNS) and health checks for public endpoints in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. This AWS Region is designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.

This Quick Start automatically deploys the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud9 integrated development environment (IDE) in the AWS Cloud in about 30 minutes. This Quick Start is for organizations that want to provide developers with a flexible and powerful cloud-based IDE that allows them to run and debug code from a browser, while seamlessly sharing their development environment with their team. 

Many traditional simulations take too long to complete and weaken a car manufacturer’s ability to successfully engineer for optimal aerodynamic performance and flow physics while also designing for style. To address this challenge, Volkswagen Group Research decided to explore new computational technologies to shorten its simulation and development cycles.

Volkswagen Group Research turned to Altair to trial the use of a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver using NVIDIA GPUs on Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically by using Altair’s ultraFluidX solution. Altair conducted a comprehensive Proof of Concept (PoC) for Volkswagen Group Research, conducting two Design of Experiments (DoE) cycles, consisting of 100 simulation runs each to be turned around within five business days.

Following the successful PoC, the CAE Methods team at Volkswagen Group Research gained confidence in the capabilities of running ultraFluidX on AWS. The PoC resulted in not only high-quality CFD results produced by ultraFluidX, but also impressive robustness, degree of automation, and turnaround time demonstrated by the solution. The team was able to run 200 car shape variants in a time frame that would typically correspond to only a few runs with its current operational tools.

Following a successful PoC, Altair estimates Volkswagen could save up to 70 percent of its current hardware cost using ultraFluidX.

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Software developed by Mentor is designed to help aircraft projects meet electrical load compliance. The Capital Load Analyzer software reduces risk in aerospace electrical compliance and certification. Anthony Nicoli, IES director of Aerospace and Defense, Mentor explained that the increased information and displays used in the aircraft cockpit for flight control and in passenger in-flight …

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STMicroelectronics has created MCU peripherals for improved digital PSUs and motor control: hardware trigonometric and filtering accelerators, a high-resolution timer, a fast analogue comparator and a low-error op-amp. Silicon carbide and gallium nitride converters are a particular target market. Released today, they are all built into STM32G4, a 170MHz Arm Cortex-M4 cored microcontroller – rated …

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Ahead of Computex 2019 in Taiwan, Arm has announced two processors for mobile computing. The Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU target mobile computing for smartphones. The Cortex-A77 increases the instructions per cycle (IPC) of the previous Cortex-A76 CPU by 20%, to improve computing performance to meet the demands of untethered AR/VR and HD gaming. The …

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Artificial intelligence can help compensate for turbulence as a drone lands, according to the California Institute of Technology. “Complex turbulence is created by the airflow from each rotor bouncing off the ground as the ground grows ever closer during a descent,” according to Caltech. “This turbulence is not well understood nor is it easy to …

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