At Day 1 of OpenPOWER Summit at NVIDIA GTC, we were blown away by the buzz around GPUs. Take a look at our recap from the latest from GTC and OpenPOWER members.

1. OpenPOWER
Summit
San Jose, CA | April 5, 2016
A recap of Day One

2. Day 1 of the OpenPOWER Foundation
Summit was all about GPUs,
beginning with NVIDIA CEO Jen-
Hsun Huang’s keynote at the NVIDIA
GPU Technology Conference (GTC),
where the OpenPOWER Foundation
Summit was taking place.

3. You need a supercharged version
of computing. We call it: GPU
Accelerated Computing.
Jen-HsunHuang
Co-Founder&CEO
NVIDIA

4. With NVLink connecting the
POWER8 CPU directly to the
Pascal GPU, OpenPOWER
systems will leverage the compute
horsepower of GPUs in a
revolutionary new way

5. We believe the CPU & GPU
are peers, which is why we’re
providing NVLink connectivity
between the POWER8 CPU
& Pascal GPU.”
SumitGupta
VP,HighPerformance
Computing&DataAnalytics
IBM

6. How much faster is Pascal
with NVLink versus Maxwell?

7. 12x FASTER
than last year’s Maxwell
systems in training image
recognition DNNs with
Pascal GPUs. That’s
1.33B images a day.

8. To help OpenPOWER
developers take full
advantage of the Pascal
GPU, they have released a
new SDK.

9. Essential tools and libraries
for GPU developers to accelerate
on OpenPOWER.
Download at:
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

10. In addition to GPUs, OpenPOWER
innovation was in full force.
For example, members
demonstrated that
OpenPOWER is the
platform for Big Data
Analytics.

11. 82xFASTER queries
and reports with POWER8 and
DB2

12. They also demonstrated
the broad range of
solutions and offerings
enabled by an open
ecosystem

13. OpenPOWER systems with CAPI
combine a flexible device, low latency,
and extremely high performance.
HaohuanFu
AssociateProfessor
TsinghuaUniversity

14. With facial recognition technology,
retailers can get real-time feedback on
customers’ reactions to their products,
it’s packaging, or ingredients.
BruceWile
PowerSystemsCAPIChiefEngineer
IBM

15. The open source nature of the
OpenPOWER stack facilitates creating
applications we never could have
before.
SteveFaure
ApplicationEngineer
IBM

16. OpenPOWER Summit Day 1 is in the
books. Stay tuned for more as we bring
you the latest announcements showing
how we are leading the
Data Center Revolution!