ISC 2016Frankfurt, Germany | June 20, 2016

A recap of Day Two

During Day 2 at

ISC 2016, we

learned about

the importance

of HPC for all

types of

organizations.

$673 in revenue per dollar of

HPC investment

per dollar of HPC investment$44

$3.9M

of profits/cost savings

per new innovation

of HPC investment

HPC offers massive ROI potential:

And the

importance of the

HPC community

and all its

members in

addressing global

problems.

This community is charged more

than any other for responsibly

charting our future course and the

preservation of the planet. Women

are in it for the long haul - we play an

extremely important role in this.

Carolyn Coke Reed Devany

President

Data Vortex Technologies

But challenges,

like the

availability of

HPC resources

and the need for

specialized

hardware,

remain.

There is currently a discrepancy between the

requests of compute cycles by scientists, with

the computing resources available.

It adds up to core hours of

lost science.

By bolstering existing nodes with GPU

acceleration, we can alleviate this.

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Dr. Peter Messmer

Senior Developer Technology Engineer

NVIDIA

Traditionally the HPC community dealt

mostly with weather and climate, but with

environmental computing we must think

about exposure and vulnerability of the

population with extreme events, which

introduces the complexity of disparate

data at different scales and the noisy data

of human behavior. It's a different type of

computing problem that requires

heterogeneous and specialized

architectures.

WilcoHazeleger

Netherlands eScienceCenter

It's about efficiency - it's nice to

have a supercomputer, but at

humanoid robot scale it's not

possible. There's a need for

specialized hardware.

Dr. TamimAsfour

KIT

But the OpenPOWER

Foundation and its

members are taking the

reins to address these

issues.

We’re building systems for the

cognitive era. Systems that

perform traditional simulation

and augment human intelligence.

We have the HPC systems that

can make both possible.

Brett Newman

HPC Group

IBM

Minsky came together through

the combined efforts of IBM,

NVIDIA, Mellanox and Wistron.

Eliminating the PCIe bottleneck

with NVLink will allow GPUs to

reach new levels of application

performance.

Steve Fields

Chief Engineer Power Systems

IBM

This makes it the world’s best

system for HPC and clustered

analytics.

We're excited to start showcasing

OpenPOWER. Our biggest interest is a gateway

into a GPU platform with NVIDIA using P100

and NVLink, which gives us the ability to handle

larger workload sizes. Not having that interface

in our x86 machines was a bottleneck for our

customers.

William Wu

Senior Product Manager

Penguin Computing

We see a major

opportunity working with

OpenPOWER for the next

generation of high output

nodes, especially in HPC.

Working with IBM allows

us to enable other

OpenPOWER members in

adopting Asetek liquid

cooling in the data center

and for HPC.

Larry Vertal

Asetek

And with the

right tools in

place, it’s only a

matter of time

before we reach

a brand new

frontier of

computing.

Everyone is talking about deep

learning. It’s a reinvention of

existing algorithms and

approaches driven by the

availability of Big Data and

accelerators. Carlo Nardone

Senior Solution Architect, EMEA

NVIDIA

As ISC 2016 continues on,

more and more OpenPOWER

discussions are fostering

more and more innovations

in HPC.

Be sure to follow us on

Twitter @OpenPOWERorg

and tune in tomorrow for our

continuing coverage of ISC

2016