openpower sc16 recap: day 3

SCSalt Lake City, Utah | November 17, 2016

16OpenPOWER Recap Day 3

What a day at

SC16! After hearing

the latest news

from OpenPOWER

the first two days,

we wanted to talk

to members about

what they’re

working on in HPC.

And understand the current trends shaping HPC.

Deepak Vinchhi

Co-founder & COO

Julia Computing, Inc.

Deep Learning is now ubiquitous in the machine learning world.

Srini Chari

Managing Partner

Cabot Partners

The convergence of HPC, big data analytics, and HPDA is the next game-changing business opportunity. It is the engine driving a Cognitive organization with data as its fuel.

OpenPOWER members are working to directly address the market’s demands

Will Ramey

Director of Developer

Marketing NVIDIA

With GPU accelerators, the process of training & retraining neural networks as you expand the amount of data you have is relatively fast & doesn’t require a lot of manual effort.

The low cost & wide availability of high-performance systems like the IBM S822LC for HPC server with NVIDIA NVLink technology helps researchers allover the world to deploy supercomputers.

Sumit Gupta

VP of HPC & Data Analytics

IBM

Including making sure that developers have the tools they need to succeed.

Doug Miles

PGI Compilers & Tools

NVIDIA

A well designed parallel programming model, supported by well optimized compilers, can greatly improve developer productivity.

Of course, the collaborative model of the OpenPOWER Foundation helps!

Phil Pokorny

CTO

Penguin Computing

With the complex solutions our customers demand, Penguin Computing is delivering a choice in traditional or OCP-based OpenPOWER systems, well suited for new applications like machine learning that can leverage NVIDIA NVLink on OpenPOWER.

Supermicro is extending its strong IBM relationship by working with IBM on OpenPOWER systems that deliver maximum performance & efficiency.

Wally Liaw

Co-founder & SVP of International Sales

Supermicro

Eliot Eshelman

VP, Strategic Accounts & HPC Initiatives

Microway

Microway integrates OpenPOWERsystems into our turnkey HPC clusters. This is enabling higher throughput than we’ve ever seen before.

Todd Raeker

Research Technology Consultant

University of Michigan

Mellanox, NVIDIA, & everyone involved in the OpenPOWER foundation allows us to seamlessly integrate different components of ConFlux.

Ken King

GM, OpenPOWER

Alliances

IBM

Like any successful racing team, Tencentknew that their ‘race car’ had to be built with collaborative innovation from organizations all over the world, so they turned to IBM & the OpenPOWER Foundation.

This concludes our coverage of SC16! We hope that you learned as much as we did! Until next time!