Read updates highlighting what’s hot in high performance computing, with this week's focused on the convergence of HPC and AI.

1. HPC TOP 5 STORIES
Weekly Insights into the World of
High Performance Computing

2. HPC AND AI HAVE PAVED THE WAY FOR
GROUNDBREAKING DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE,
MEDICINE, AND OTHER FIELDS…

3. PROVING THAT AI IS THE FUTURE OF
SUPERCOMPUTING…

4. HERE ARE THE “TOP FIVE’ STORIES
HIGHLIGHTING WHAT’S HOT IN HPC AND AI
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5. TOP 5
1. NVIDIA Scores Yet Another GPU Cloud for AI with Tencent
2. KAUST Hackathon Shows OpenACC Global Appeal
3. The AI Podcast: AI Takes Wing- Deep Learning Hears Once Extinct Bird
4. How Deep Learning is Transforming Healthcare
5. Scientists use IBM Power Systems to Assemble Genome of West Nile Mosquito

6. NVIDIA SCORES YET ANOTHER GPU CLOUD FOR AI
WITH TENCENT
NVIDIA’s speedy GPUs and Machine Learning
software have unquestionably become the gold
standard for building Artificial Intelligence (AI)
applications. And today, NVIDIA added TenCent
to their list of cloud service providers that
offer access to NVIDIA hardware in their clouds
for AI and other compute intensive
applications. This marks a significant milestone
in the global accessibility of the hardware
needed to build AI applications, from drones to
medical devices to automated factories and
robots.
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7. KAUST HACKATHON SHOWS OPENACC GLOBAL APPEAL
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OpenACC’s global attraction can be seen in
the recent February 2017 OpenACC mini-
hackathon and GPU conference at KAUST
(King Abdullah University of Science &
Technology) in Saudi Arabia. OpenACC was
created so programmers can insert pragmas
to provide information to the compiler about
parallelization opportunities and data
movement operations to and from
accelerators. Programmers use pragmas to
work in concert with the compiler to create,
tune and optimize parallel codes to achieve
high performance.
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8. THE AI PODCAST: AI TAKES WING- DEEP LEARNING
HEARS ONCE EXTINCT BIRD
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Now, thanks to deep learning, biologists can alight
on remote islands with just a dozen sensors, leave,
and return months later to scoop up vast quantities
of data.
The data — far more than any one human can
analyze — is then crunched by deep learning systems
developed by Conservation Metrics, based in Santa
Cruz, Calif., and trained with NVIDIA GPUs.
The results are uncanny. Biologists can now use
sensitive microphones track how often endangered
birds run into obstacles over many months. They’ve
even used the technology to find — and protect —
birds that were once thought extinct.
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9. HOW DEEP LEARNING IS TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE
Deep learning has been used to transform
artificial intelligence (AI) development,
whether it is from beating players in games
like Go or poker to improving self-driving AI.
But perhaps the most important changes for
most of us is how AI advances and machine
learning are affecting healthcare. In January, a
medical startup won FDA approval for an AI-
assisted cardiac imaging system called Arterys,
and AI is playing vital roles in other health
fields such as fighting cancer and
aging. NVIDIA boasts that with deep learning,
“AI can help doctors make faster, more
accurate diagnoses. It can predict the risk of a
disease in time to prevent it.”
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10. SCIENTISTS USE IBM POWER SYSTEMS TO ASSEMBLE
GENOME OF WEST NILE MOSQUITO
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A team led by researchers from The Center for Genome
Architecture (TC4GA) at Baylor College of Medicine have
used technologies from IBM (NYSE: IBM), Mellanox and
NVIDIA to assemble the 1.2 billion letter genome of
the Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito, which carries West
Nile virus. The new genome can help enable scientists to
better combat West Nile virus by identifying
vulnerabilities in the mosquito that the virus uses to
spread.
The high performance computing (HPC) system dubbed
"VOLTRON," is based on the IBM Power Systems platform,
which provides scalable HPC capabilities necessary to
accommodate a broad spectrum of data-enabled research
activities.

11. HOW CAN HPC IMPACT YOUR BUSINESS?
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