ISC 2016Frankfurt, Germany | June 20, 2016

A recap of Day Three

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.

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.Thomas Arenz

Director of Strategic Marketing, EMEA

Samsung Semiconductor

These systems thrive by

getting data into the

hardware, and our goal as a

systems provider is to feed

the beast.Scott Soutter

Product Manager HPC Systems,

IBM

50%Caffe-AlexNet

savings

55%

60%

NAMD

savings

MILC

GPUs lower the cost of HPC

Marc Hamilton

NVIDIA

savings

The combination of POWER8's

processing strengths,

OpenPOWER technology, and

SoftLayer's flexibility allows clients

to rapidly deploy Linux workloads

on bare metal systems.

Brad Brech

Power Systems Distinguished Engineer

IBM

Including the growing

convergence of high

performance

computing and high

performance data

analytics.

Hadoop’s infrastructure is

similar to what we’re doing in

HPC, but it’s doing high

performance data analytics for

industry.

Jan Wender

HPC Services and Software, Team Leader

Atos

But the growth of

cognitive

computing, deep

learning, and

machine learning

remained a key

driver of

conversations.

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

We believe

OpenPOWER will be

very important for the

future of cognitive

computing.

Alessandro Curioni

Vice President, Europe and Director

IBM Research

We mean for cognitive

computing to be a

revolution, and for a

revolution you need an

ecosystem.

Alessandro Curioni

Vice President, Europe and Director

IBM Research

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

Senior System Architect

Minds.ai

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.

Thomas Sterling

Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering

Indiana University

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.

118

10billion

The years that it will

take an Exaflop

supercomputer to

solve a binary

optimization problem

with 512 variables.

Rupak Biswas

Director of Exploration Technology Directorate

NASA Ames Research Center

This concludes our coverage of ISC 2016. Please be sure to follow us on Twitter at @OpenPOWERorg

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Until next year: Auf Wiedersehen!