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

1. HPC Top 5 Stories
Weekly Insights into the World of
High Performance Computing

2. The combination of HPC and AI has
paved the way for groundbreaking
discoveries, proving the AI is the
future for supercomputing.

3. Here are the “Top Five” stories
highlighting what’s hot in
#HPCMeetsAI.

4. HPC TOP 5
The Rise of AI Will Force Data
Scientists to Evolve or Get Left Behind
After a few decades of exploration of symbolic AI methods, the field
shifted toward statistical approaches, that have as of late started
working in a broad array of tasks due to the explosion of data and
computing power, this in turn has led to machine learning and, most
importantly, enabled deep learning.
This is great news for the tech industry. The downside is that there
aren’t enough data scientists that understand deep learning. For those
who do, there is a huge demand for their services.
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Learn more about NVIDIA’s role in artificial intelligence and
deep learning.

5. HPC TOP 5
OpenACC 3 Steps to More Science
The rate of scientific discovery is speeding up every day with the use of
advancing technologies like GPUs: scientific results are being published
faster than ever before.
This three-step tutorial is designed to show you how to take advantage of
compilers and libraries to quickly accelerate your codes with GPUs so that
you can spend more time on real breakthroughs.
All the tools mentioned are freely available as part of the PGI Community
Edition.
READ MORE Learn more about OpenACC.

6. HPC TOP 5
Where AI and Robotics are Headed
in 2017
Predictive analytics and artificial intelligence enable companies to sharply reduce
downtime and ensure optimal application performance, essentially switching from
“firefighter mode” to a more proactive IT strategy, he added. “This year, it will
become painfully obvious which industry players are holding on to the “speeds and
feeds” model, because they will be the ones falling behind,” he said.
“In 2017, intelligence will triumph over measuring speed in flops. Over the last
several decades, we have competed upon speed with the intent to build the world’s
fastest supercomputer. Supercomputers moving forward will measured not by their
computational peaks, but their artificial intelligence capability. AI is the new
computational tool for supercomputing,” said Ian Buck, vice president of
accelerated computing at NVIDIA.
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To learn more about the most advanced data center
ever built, visit NVIDIA Tesla P100 page.

7. HPC TOP 5
AI Algorithm Diagnoses Rare Eye
Condition
“For doctors, technology is not sufficient to determine the best course of
treatment with 100 percent certainty, and doctors should therefore make
good use of the machine’s suggestion to identify and prevent the potential
misclassification and complement their own judgment,” said study co-
author Haotian Lin, a professor of ophthalmology at Sun Yat-sen University.
“The results of our comparative analysis showed that both artificial
intelligence and human intelligence have strengths and limitations.”
Using CUDA, TITAN X Pascal GPUs and the cuDNN-accelerated Caffe deep
learning framework, the researchers algorithm was able to catch the
disease with more than 90% accuracy.
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Learn more about Caffe on NVIDIA Pascal GPUs.

8. HPC TOP 5
Eight Industries That AI Will Change
Forever
Companies handle a great deal of information every day, which can
make it difficult to tease out trends or watch for sales opportunities.
Artificial intelligence (AI) improvements are reducing that strain by
automating data analysis, which can reduce costs as well as the time
required to make decisions.
Recent AI technology developments mean that firms now have a
chance to take advantage of stronger analysis automation in fields like
shipping, travel, health care and even transportation. Below,
executives from Forbes Technology Council highlight eight industries
that will benefit most from artificial intelligence.
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Learn more about NVIDIA’s role in artificial intelligence
and deep learning.

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