ISC 2016 Day 3 Recap
- 1. ISC 2016 Frankfurt, Germany | June 20, 2016 A recap of Day Three
- 2. During the third and final day of ISC, we learned about the role that our OpenPOWER members play in Industry, and what they can enable for businesses.
- 3. Customers need choice, and Samsung works with ecosystems like OpenPOWER so HPC users have the ability to choose between implementation options, and aren’t locked into single source solutions. ThomasArenz DirectorofStrategicMarketing, EMEA Samsung Semiconductor
- 4. These systems thrive by getting data into the hardware, and our goal as a systems provider is to feed the beast. ScottSoutter Product ManagerHPCSystems, IBM
- 5. 50% Caffe-AlexNet savings 55% 60% NAMD savings MILC GPUs lower the cost of HPC MarcHamilton NVIDIA savings
- 6. The combination of POWER8's processing strengths, OpenPOWER technology, and SoftLayer's flexibility allows clients to rapidly deploy Linux workloads on bare metal systems. BradBrech PowerSystemsDistinguished Engineer IBM
- 7. Including the growing convergence of high performance computing and high performance data analytics.
- 8. Hadoop’s infrastructure is similar to what we’re doing in HPC, but it’s doing high performance data analytics for industry. JanWender HPCServicesandSoftware,TeamLeader Atos
- 9. But the growth of cognitive computing, deep learning, and machine learning remained a key driver of conversations.
- 10. The ability to choose from platforms, runtimes and deployment models allows the creation of purposeful architectures that will define digital and cognitive success. CalistaRedmond President OpenPOWER Foundation
- 11. We believe OpenPOWER will be very important for the future of cognitive computing. Alessandro Curioni VicePresident, EuropeandDirector IBMResearch
- 12. We mean for cognitive computing to be a revolution, and for a revolution you need an ecosystem. Alessandro Curioni VicePresident, EuropeandDirector IBMResearch
- 13. When you have your data you start training your deep learning network. It’s an iterative process that takes a long time and you need powerful hardware. JeroenBedorf SeniorSystemArchitect Minds.ai
- 14. The biggest application of supercomputing will not be in dense matrix floating point operations or large data processing for pattern recognition, it will in fact be symbolic computing, the creation of machines that think. More importantly, machines that understand. ThomasSterling ProfessorofIntelligent SystemsEngineering Indiana University
- 15. But as we continue to ask more and more questions about our world, and the problems keep changing, even greater challenges for HPC are on the horizon that will need technologies we haven’t even dreamt of… yet.
- 16. 118 10billion The years that it will take an Exaflop supercomputer to solve a binary optimization problem with 512 variables. Rupak Biswas DirectorofExploration Technology Directorate NASA AmesResearchCenter
- 17. This concludes our coverage of ISC 2016. Please be sure to follow us on Twitter at @OpenPOWERorg and share our coverage with your colleagues in the HPC industry. Until next year: Auf Wiedersehen!