See the latest in acceleration, deep and machine learning, and more by clicking thru our curated experience of International Supercomputing 2016. Through an OpenPOWER lens, we show you the best news and conversations that took place at ISC June 20-23, 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany.

1. ISC 2016
Frankfurt, Germany | June 20-23, 2016
A recap through the OpenPOWER lens

2. During Day 1 of International
Supercomputing 2016, presenters
emphasized the importance of
collaboration across the entire HPC
infrastructure in order to drive
performance.

3. 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,HighPerformance
Computing &DataAnalytics
IBM

4. 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
DirectorofPGICompilers
NVIDIA

5. 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.

6. You can’t do
HPC without
visualization.
MarcHamilton
VP,Solutions Architecture andEngineering
NVIDIA

7. ConnectX-5 is not only the
fastest, it's the smartest adapter
yet, advancing in-network
computing with new features
like MPI offload.
GiladShainer
VicePresident, Marketing
Mellanox

8. We’re creating one of the
largest R&D
organizations, pushing
storage even further.
Andreas Krause
HeadofProductLineManagement &StrategyforActive
Archive andCloud
HGST

9. 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.

10. AI is the new
electricity.
Andrew Ng,Baidu

11. 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,
ChiefScientist
Baidu

12. 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,
ChiefScientist
Baidu

13. The advantages of the
OpenPOWER
architecture were
clear.

14. 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
VPofDevelopment andOperations
E4ComputerEngineering

15. We saw in benchmarks that
POWER8 has better memory
bandwidth. A lot of applications
require high memory bandwidth
so this suits our needs.
AndreTattar
Student
University ofTartu

16. During Day 2 at
ISC 2016, we
learned about
the importance
of HPC for all
types of
organizations.

17. $673 in revenue per dollar of
HPC investment
per dollar of HPC investment
$44
$3.9M
of profits/cost savings
per new innovation
of HPC investment
HPC offers massive ROI potential:

18. And the
importance of the
HPC community
and all its
members in
addressing global
problems.

19. This community is charged more
than any other for responsibly
charting our future course and the
preservation of the planet. Women
are in it for the long haul - we play an
extremely important role in this.
CarolynCokeReedDevany
President
DataVortexTechnologies

20. But challenges,
like the
availability of
HPC resources
and the need for
specialized
hardware,
remain.

21. There is currently a discrepancy between the
requests of compute cycles by scientists, with
the computing resources available.
It adds up to core hours of
lost science.
By bolstering existing nodes with GPU
acceleration, we can alleviate this.
200B
Dr.PeterMessmer
SeniorDeveloper Technology Engineer
NVIDIA

22. Traditionally the HPC community dealt
mostly with weather and climate, but with
environmental computing we must think
about exposure and vulnerability of the
population with extreme events, which
introduces the complexity of disparate
data at different scales and the noisy data
of human behavior. It's a different type of
computing problem that requires
heterogeneous and specialized
architectures.
WilcoHazeleger
Netherlands eScienceCenter

23. It's about efficiency - it's nice to
have a supercomputer, but at
humanoid robot scale it's not
possible. There's a need for
specialized hardware.
Dr.TamimAsfour
KIT

24. But the OpenPOWER
Foundation and its
members are taking the
reins to address these
issues.

25. We’re building systems for the
cognitive era. Systems that
perform traditional simulation
and augment human intelligence.
We have the HPC systems that
can make both possible.
BrettNewman
HPCGroup
IBM

26. Minsky came together through
the combined efforts of IBM,
NVIDIA, Mellanox and Wistron.
Eliminating the PCIe bottleneck
with NVLink will allow GPUs to
reach new levels of application
performance.
SteveFields
ChiefEngineer PowerSystems
IBM
This makes it the world’s best
system for HPC and clustered
analytics.

27. We're excited to start showcasing
OpenPOWER. Our biggest interest is a gateway
into a GPU platform with NVIDIA using P100
and NVLink, which gives us the ability to handle
larger workload sizes. Not having that interface
in our x86 machines was a bottleneck for our
customers.
William Wu
SeniorProductManager
Penguin Computing

28. We see a major
opportunity working with
OpenPOWER for the next
generation of high output
nodes, especially in HPC.
Working with IBM allows
us to enable other
OpenPOWER members in
adopting Asetek liquid
cooling in the data center
and for HPC.
LarryVertal
Asetek

29. And with the
right tools in
place, it’s only a
matter of time
before we reach
a brand new
frontier of
computing.

30. Everyone is talking about deep
learning. It’s a reinvention of
existing algorithms and
approaches driven by the
availability of Big Data and
accelerators.
CarloNardone
SeniorSolution Architect,EMEA
NVIDIA

31. As ISC 2016 continues on,
more and more OpenPOWER
discussions are fostering
more and more innovations
in HPC.

32. During the third
and final day of
ISC, we learned
about the role that
our OpenPOWER
members play in
Industry, and what
they can enable
for businesses.

33. Customers need choice, and
Samsung works with ecosystems
like OpenPOWER so HPC users
have the ability to choose between
implementation options, and
aren’t locked into single source
solutions.
ThomasArenz
DirectorofStrategicMarketing, EMEA
Samsung Semiconductor

34. These systems thrive by
getting data into the
hardware, and our goal as a
systems provider is to feed
the beast.
ScottSoutter
Product ManagerHPCSystems,
IBM

35. 50%
Caffe-AlexNet
savings
55%
60%
NAMD
savings
MILC
GPUs lower the cost of HPC
MarcHamilton
NVIDIA
savings

36. The combination of POWER8's
processing strengths,
OpenPOWER technology, and
SoftLayer's flexibility allows clients
to rapidly deploy Linux workloads
on bare metal systems.
BradBrech
PowerSystemsDistinguished Engineer
IBM

37. Including the growing
convergence of high
performance
computing and high
performance data
analytics.

38. Hadoop’s infrastructure is
similar to what we’re doing in
HPC, but it’s doing high
performance data analytics for
industry.
JanWender
HPCServicesandSoftware,TeamLeader
Atos

39. But the growth of
cognitive
computing, deep
learning, and
machine learning
remained a key
driver of
conversations.

40. The ability to choose from
platforms, runtimes and
deployment models
allows the creation of
purposeful architectures
that will define digital and
cognitive success.
CalistaRedmond
President
OpenPOWER Foundation

41. We believe
OpenPOWER will be
very important for the
future of cognitive
computing.
Alessandro Curioni
VicePresident, EuropeandDirector
IBMResearch

42. We mean for cognitive
computing to be a
revolution, and for a
revolution you need an
ecosystem.
Alessandro Curioni
VicePresident, EuropeandDirector
IBMResearch

43. When you have your data you start
training your deep learning
network. It’s an iterative process
that takes a long time and you
need powerful hardware.
JeroenBedorf
SeniorSystemArchitect
Minds.ai

44. The biggest application of
supercomputing will not be in dense
matrix floating point operations or large
data processing for pattern recognition,
it will in fact be symbolic computing,
the creation of machines that think.
More importantly, machines that
understand.
ThomasSterling
ProfessorofIntelligent SystemsEngineering
Indiana University

45. But as we continue to ask
more and more questions
about our world, and the
problems keep changing,
even greater challenges
for HPC are on the
horizon that will need
technologies we haven’t
even dreamt of… yet.

46. 118
10billion
The years that it will
take an Exaflop
supercomputer to
solve a binary
optimization problem
with 512 variables.
Rupak Biswas
DirectorofExploration Technology Directorate
NASA AmesResearchCenter

47. This concludes our coverage of ISC
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Until next year: Auf Wiedersehen!