SC16Salt Lake City, Utah November 15, 2016OpenPOWER Recap Day One

Welcome everyone to SC16,

one of OpenPOWER’s favorite

events!

Day 1 didn’t disappoint as

former IBM VP Katharine Frase

began the day discussing

cognitive computing and AI.

Katharine Frase

Former VP & CTO

IBM Public Sector

How do we get to systems thatcan help us ask the right questions, not just find the right answers?

Katharine Frase

Former VP & CTO

IBM Public Sector

We’re teaching humans to speak in a language that computers understand.

And organizations of all

shapes and sizes are looking

to leverage AI and cognitive

computing.

They’re putting their money

where their mouth is, too!

$17B in AI investments since 2009

This is where OpenPOWER members

IBM and NVIDIA come in! At SC16

they announced PowerAI, a new deep

learning package optimized for

OpenPOWER: ibm.co/2feltl5

Scott Soutter

Offering Manager

HPC & Deep Learning, IBM

Deep learning isn’t just a computing opportunity. It has the potential to revolutionize every organizational segment, geography, & domain.

24%FASTER

Deep learning training on OpenPOWER than x86 with PowerAI!

Already people are turning to

the OpenPOWER ecosystem to

maximize deep learning

potential!

One in five health care dollars in the U.S. are spent on caring for

patients with diabetes*.

See how Julia Computing, Inc. is working with OpenPOWER to help solve this problem with accelerated

deep learning: bit.ly/2fRDYNn

$$$$$

*American Diabetes Association

Elsewhere, OpenPOWER

members discussed their

deployments and use of

OpenPOWER technology.

1. Fat single nodes

2. Unlocking new workloads & programming

3. Ultra-powerful clusters

4. Specialized pre-post processing

The top four deployments of the IBM S822LC for HPC OpenPOWER server:

Mateo Valero

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Having industrial technological partners willing to collaborate on the project is a sine qua non. This is why BSC decided to join the OpenPOWER Foundation.

2.5x The performance of Kineticaon x86 when running on the IBM S822LC for HPC!

See more HPC application performance on OpenPOWER: http://ibm.co/2fVDCYM

Architectural & performance portability like the POWER8-NVIDIA NVLink platform is critical to our application developers & users as we move from existing CPU-only & GPU-enabled applications on machines like Titan to DOE’s upcoming major systems including the Summit system we’re installing at ORNL.

Tjerk Straatsma

Scientific Computing Group Leader

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Thanks for joining us today! Stay tuned tomorrow for our second recap!

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