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NVIDIA: Building a Low-Latency Earth-2 Nowcasting Pipeline with Earthmover

October 21, 2026

NVIDIA and Earthmover built a low-latency nowcasting workflow that turns Meteosat satellite observations into a two-hour nowcast using Earth-2 StormScope-EU, and serves it directly from versioned data through map tiles and SQL.

Negin Sobhani

Senior Machine Learning Performance Engineer, NVIDIA

Aaron Spring

Data and AI Freelancer

Jussi Leinonen

Senior Solution Architect, NVIDIA

Marius Koch

Senior Solution Architect, NVIDIA

Announcement

Science data comes in tables and tensors

September 23, 2026

Apache Iceberg comes to Arraylake. Tables now live alongside Icechunk arrays in the same catalog, under the same permissions, in your own buckets — queryable from DuckDB, Spark, Trino, Snowflake, and Zax-SQL.

Joe Hamman

CTO & Co-founder

Matt Iannucci

Staff Engineer

Blog Post

Our compute roadmap: introducing Zax SQL

September 15, 2026

We're introducing Zax, a new query and compute engine for multidimensional scientific data, and Zax-SQL, the first interface to it. Zax plans your computation for you, so you are no longer responsible for tuning chunk sizes, worker counts, and memory limits.