Take a look at our first recap of OpenPOWER at SC16! See news from members IBM, NVIDIA, and more!

1. SC16
Salt Lake City, Utah
November 15, 2016
OpenPOWER Recap Day One

2. Welcome everyone to SC16,
one of OpenPOWER’s favorite
events!
Day 1 didn’t disappoint as
former IBM VP Katharine Frase
began the day discussing
cognitive computing and AI.

3. Katharine Frase
Former VP & CTO
IBM Public Sector
How do we get to systems that
can help us ask the right
questions, not just find the right
answers?

4. Katharine Frase
Former VP & CTO
IBM Public Sector
We’re teaching humans to speak in a
language that computers understand.

5. And organizations of all
shapes and sizes are looking
to leverage AI and cognitive
computing.
They’re putting their money
where their mouth is, too!

6. $17B in AI investments
since 2009

7. This is where OpenPOWER members
IBM and NVIDIA come in! At SC16
they announced PowerAI, a new deep
learning package optimized for
OpenPOWER: ibm.co/2feltl5

8. Scott Soutter
Offering Manager
HPC & Deep Learning, IBM
Deep learning isn’t just a computing
opportunity. It has the potential to
revolutionize every organizational
segment, geography, & domain.

9. 24%
FASTER
Deep learning training on
OpenPOWER than x86
with PowerAI!

10. Already people are turning to
the OpenPOWER ecosystem to
maximize deep learning
potential!

11. One in five health care dollars in
the U.S. are spent on caring for
patients with diabetes*.
See how Julia Computing, Inc. is
working with OpenPOWER to help
solve this problem with accelerated
deep learning: bit.ly/2fRDYNn
$$$$$
*American Diabetes Association

12. Elsewhere, OpenPOWER
members discussed their
deployments and use of
OpenPOWER technology.

13. 1. Fat single nodes
2. Unlocking new workloads & programming
3. Ultra-powerful clusters
4. Specialized pre-post processing
The top four deployments of
the IBM S822LC for HPC
OpenPOWER server:

14. Mateo Valero
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Having industrial technological partners
willing to collaborate on the project is a
sine qua non. This is why BSC decided
to join the OpenPOWER Foundation.

15. 2.5x The performance of Kinetica
on x86 when running on the
IBM S822LC for HPC!
See more HPC application
performance on OpenPOWER:
http://ibm.co/2fVDCYM

16. Architectural & performance portability like the POWER8-
NVIDIA NVLink platform is critical to our application
developers & users as we move from existing CPU-only &
GPU-enabled applications on machines like Titan to
DOE’s upcoming major systems including the Summit
system we’re installing at ORNL.
Tjerk Straatsma
Scientific Computing Group Leader
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

17. Thanks for joining us today!
Stay tuned tomorrow for our
second recap!
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