Brings Revolutionary Evapotranspiration Monitoring for Precision Irrigation
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CropX, a global leader of digital agricultural solutions, is launching throughout the Australasia region a first-of-its-kind sensor for monitoring the real-time plant water use in a field through evapotranspiration (ET). This new, above-canopy sensor connects to the CropX agronomic farm management system to give its users an unprecedented knowledge of crop water use and needs, allowing for data-driven irrigation scheduling and remote management that maximizes water efficiency.
CropX's Actual ET sensor vastly increases the knowledge of water use at the soil and plant level so that farmers can make well-informed agronomic decisions. Users of the CropX system can reduce irrigation water by up to 50% while still protecting, and even improving, the productivity of their fields.
CropX's agronomic farm management system links sensors in fields and satellite data with cloud-based advanced agronomic analytics. The system delivers field, weather, and crop data and recommendations via mobile or desktop app. CropX's soil sensors collect data that is transformed into helpful visualizations and advisory insights that guide the timing and amount of irrigation, fungal disease crop protection, and planting and harvest dates, while acting as a recording repository for on-farm management activities. In New Zealand, Dairy Holdings, a dairy collective that covers over 20,000 hectares, has used CropX as a key tool to reduce irrigation use by 30% while improving the quality and quantity of their yield.
The CropX Actual ET sensor can be used alongside soil moisture sensors to gain a complete picture of water use in a field. It can also be an alternative to a soil moisture sensor when rocky soils make an in-ground soil moisture sensor challenging. Regional evapotranspiration values are commonly used by farmers to estimate how much and when to irrigate, but the CropX option offers the first measurement that covers a specific field on a daily basis. This specificity can reveal microclimate differences, crop stage water uptake differences, and can provide an early detection method for crop stress.
The evapotranspiration technology came from CropX's 2022 acquisition of Tule Technologies, a California-based agricultural tech company that developed the patented technology. CropX further has continued to refine the tech and developed a version that can be mounted on a center pivot.
Eitan Dan, managing director of CropX Australasia, says, "It is exciting to bring evapotranspiration sensing to New Zealand and Australia and the rest of the region, as we expand the universe of tools for effectively managing water, the most valuable natural resource we have."
Additional benefits of the evapotranspiration sensor include the reduction on the reliance on weather stations for ET; field-scale insights that offer a clearer view of field water-use dynamics; and seasonal ET data that can provide insights into how factors like temperature swings and droughts impact water use that can help inform irrigation planning and water budgeting for future seasons.
In New Zealand and Australia, CropX is sold through local dealers. To find a local dealer or to become one, contact us at info.nz@cropx.com.
About CropX
CropX is one of the fastest growing providers of agribusiness farm management solutions in the world, deployed in over 70 countries and across all arable continents. Our flagship product, the CropX agronomic farm management system, synthesizes data from soil to sky to offer advanced soil and crop intelligence and a suite of digital agronomic decision and planning tools, all on an easy-to-use app capable of tracking multiple farms and fields. CropX is backed by the world's leading agribusinesses and VCs, who recognize that CropX's precision-ag technologies set new standards of best practices for environmental sustainability and greater farm productivity. Learn more at www.cropx.com.
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CropX Launches a New Era of Sustainable Irrigation in New Zealand
Company Previews New Solution With NVIDIA, Arm, and Supermicro at Supercomputing 2024 to Deliver Exceptional Performance Density and Energy Savings for Enterprise AI Deployments
ATLANTA and CAMPBELL, Calif., Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- From Supercomputing 2024: WEKA, the AI-native data platform company, previewed the industry's first high-performance storage solution for the NVIDIA Graceâ„¢ CPU Superchip. The solution will run on a powerful new storage server from Supermicro powered by WEKA® Data Platform software and Arm® Neoverseâ„¢ V2 cores using the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip and NVIDIA ConnectX-7 and NVIDIA BlueField-3 networking to accelerate enterprise AI workloads with unmatched performance density and power efficiency.
Fueling the Next Generation of AI Innovation
Today's AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads demand lightning-fast data access, but most data centers face increasing space and power constraints.
NVIDIA Grace integrates the level of performance offered by a flagship x86-64 two-socket workstation or server platform into a single module. Grace CPU Superchips are powered by 144 high-performance Arm Neoverse V2 cores that deliver 2x the energy efficiency of traditional x86 servers. NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NICs and BlueField-3 SuperNICs feature purpose-built RDMA/RoCE acceleration, delivering high-throughput, low-latency network connectivity at up to 400Gb/s speeds. The combination of the WEKA Data Platform's revolutionary zero-copy software architecture running on the Supermicro Petascale storage server minimizes I/O bottlenecks and reduces AI pipeline latency to significantly enhance GPU utilization and accelerate AI model training and inference to dramatically improve time to first token, discoveries, and insights while reducing power consumption and associated costs.
Key benefits of the solution include:
"AI is transforming how enterprises around the world innovate, create, and operate, but the sharp increase in its adoption has drastically increased data center energy consumption, which is expected to double by 2026, according to the International Atomic Agency," said Nilesh Patel, chief product officer at WEKA. "WEKA is excited to partner with NVIDIA, Arm, and Supermicro to develop high-performance, energy-efficient solutions for next-generation data centers that drive enterprise AI and high-performance workloads while accelerating the processing of large amounts of data and reducing time to actionable insights."
"WEKA has developed a powerful storage solution with Supermicro that integrates seamlessly with the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip to improve the efficiency of at-scale, data-intensive AI workloads. The solution will provide fast data access while reducing energy consumption, enabling data-driven organizations to turbocharge their AI infrastructure," said Ivan Goldwasser, director of data center CPUs at NVIDIA.
"Supermicro's upcoming ARS-121L-NE316R Petascale storage server is the first storage optimized server using the NVIDIA Grace Superchip CPU," said Patrick Chiu, Senior Director, Storage Product Management, Supermicro. "The system design features 16 high-performance Gen5 E3.S NVMe SSD bays along with three PCIe Gen 5 networking slots, which support up to two NVIDIA ConnectX 7 or BlueField-3 SuperNIC networking adapters and one OCP 3.0 network adapter. The system is ideal for high-performance storage workloads like AI, data analytics, and hyperscale cloud applications. Our collaboration with NVIDIA and WEKA has resulted in a data platform enabling customers to make their data centers more power efficient while adding new AI processing capabilities."
"AI innovation requires a new approach to silicon and system design that balances performance with power efficiency. Arm is proud to be working with NVIDIA, WEKA and Supermicro to deliver a highly performant enterprise AI solution that delivers exceptional value and uncompromising energy efficiency," said David Lecomber, director for HPC at Arm.
The storage solution from WEKA and Supermicro using NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchips will be commercially available in early 2025. Supercomputing 2024 attendees can visit WEKA in Booth #1931 for more details and a demo of the new solution.
About WEKA
WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the AI era. The WEKA® Data Platform sets the standard for AI infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native architecture that can be deployed anywhere, providing seamless data portability across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. It transforms legacy data silos into dynamic data pipelines that accelerate GPUs, AI model training and inference, and other performance-intensive workloads, enabling them to work more efficiently, consume less energy, and reduce associated carbon emissions. WEKA helps the world's most innovative enterprises and research organizations overcome complex data challenges to reach discoveries, insights, and outcomes faster and more sustainably – including 12 of the Fortune 50. Visit www.weka.io to learn more or connect with WEKA on LinkedIn, X, and Facebook.
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WEKA Unveils Industry's First AI Storage Cluster Built On NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchips
