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Events on Tuesday 5 January 2016 2
1925 – 2016Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)Died 5 January 2016, aged 90Boulez was a French composer and conductor who was a leading figure in postwar avant-garde classical music. He led major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony. His compositions and writings shaped serialist and modernist music for decades.
2016Pascal architecture — P100 delivered to Elon MuskNvidia's Pascal GPU architecture launches in 2016 with the P100 — the most powerful computing chip ever made at the time. Pascal is designed from the ground up for deep learning: its NVLink interconnect allows multiple GPUs to work together as one. Jensen Huang delivers a P100 personally to Elon Musk for Tesla's Autopilot development. Nvidia's stock rises 225% in 2016 — the best performance of any S&P 500 stock that year.