ISC High Performance 2016

Frankfurt, Germany | June 20, 2016

A recap of Day One

During Day 1 of International

Supercomputing 2016, presenters

emphasized the importance of

collaboration across the entire HPC

infrastructure in order to drive

performance.

Our belief is that we need to

do what makes sense for our

customers, and they’re telling

us they want open,

collaborative partnerships

between vendors, and no

single technology vendor

can solve their problems.SumitGupta

VP, High Performance

Computing & Data Analytics

IBM

Coupling the most powerful CPU

with the most powerful GPU is a

really powerful story, but you

have to compile for it. We’re

making porting to OpenPOWER

plus GPUs easy with PGI.

Doug Miles

Director of PGI Compilers

NVIDIA

And OpenPOWER

members were at

the forefront of

the conversation,

demonstrating

how they each

bring their best-in-

breed solutions to

our HPC-focused

ecosystem.

You can’t do

HPC without

visualization. Marc Hamilton

VP, Solutions Architecture and Engineering

NVIDIA

ConnectX-5 is not only the

fastest, it's the smartest adapter

yet, advancing in-network

computing with new features

like MPI offload.GiladShainer

Vice President, Marketing

Mellanox

We’re creating one of the

largest R&D

organizations, pushing

storage even further.

Andreas Krause

Head of Product Line Management & Strategy for Active

Archive and Cloud

HGST

Many of the presenters

focused on cutting-edge

technology, like artificial

intelligence, that wouldn’t

be possible without the

might of an entire, open

ecosystem behind it.

AI is the new

electricity.Andrew Ng, Baidu

Today, given a single short

utterance in Mandarin, we

can transcribe at a level of

accuracy greater than a

single human transcribing

the same speech.Dr. Andrew Ng,

Chief Scientist

Baidu

AI and HPC give us superpowers. We

can help blind people see, build self-

driving cars, and fight crime. I hope all of

us will take our superpowers and do

what’s best for humanity.

Dr. Andrew Ng,

Chief Scientist

Baidu

The advantages of the

OpenPOWER

architecture were

clear.

We’re an agnostic company, so our goal

is to ID the best platform for a given

code. We’ve found that Power can be

exploited for a broad range of

applications, especially memory

intensive ones.

Simone Tinti

VP of Development and Operations

E4 Computer Engineering

We saw in benchmarks that

POWER8 has better memory

bandwidth. A lot of applications

require high memory bandwidth

so this suits our needs.Andre Tattar

Student

University of Tartu

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