openpower summit day 1 recap
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OpenPOWERSummit
San Jose, CA | April 5, 2016
A recap of Day One
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.
You need a supercharged version
of computing. We call it: GPU
Accelerated Computing.
Jen-HsunHuang
Co-Founder & CEO
NVIDIA
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
We believe the CPU & GPU
are peers, which is why we’re
providing NVLink connectivity
between the POWER8 CPU
& Pascal GPU.”
SumitGupta
VP, High Performance
Computing & Data Analytics
IBM
How much faster is Pascal
with NVLink versus Maxwell?
12x FASTERthan last year’s Maxwell
systems in training image
recognition DNNs with
Pascal GPUs. That’s
1.33B images a day.
To help OpenPOWER
developers take full
advantage of the Pascal
GPU, they have released a
new SDK.
Essential tools and libraries
for GPU developers to accelerate
on OpenPOWER.
Download at:
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
In addition to GPUs, OpenPOWER
innovation was in full force.
For example, members
demonstrated that
OpenPOWER is the
platform for Big Data
Analytics.
82xFASTER queries
and reports with POWER8 and
DB2
They also demonstrated
the broad range of
solutions and offerings
enabled by an open
ecosystem
OpenPOWER systems with CAPI
combine a flexible device, low latency,
and extremely high performance.
HaohuanFu
Associate Professor
Tsinghua University
With facial recognition technology,
retailers can get real-time feedback on
customers’ reactions to their products,
it’s packaging, or ingredients.
Bruce Wile
Power Systems CAPI Chief Engineer
IBM
The open source nature of the
OpenPOWER stack facilitates creating
applications we never could have
before.
Steve Faure
Application Engineer
IBM
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!