OpenPOWER Summit Day 1 Recap

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!