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HERE ARE THE “TOP FIVE’ STORIES HIGHLIGHTING WHAT’S HOT IN HPC AND AI

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1. NVIDIA Scores Yet Another GPU Cloud for AI with Tencent

2. KAUST Hackathon Shows OpenACC Global Appeal

3. The AI Podcast: AI Takes Wing- Deep Learning Hears Once Extinct Bird

4. How Deep Learning is Transforming Healthcare

5. Scientists use IBM Power Systems to Assemble Genome of West Nile Mosquito

NVIDIA SCORES YET ANOTHER GPU CLOUD FOR AI WITH TENCENT

NVIDIA’s speedy GPUs and Machine Learning software have unquestionably become the gold standard for building Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. And today, NVIDIA added TenCent to their list of cloud service providers that offer access to NVIDIA hardware in their clouds for AI and other compute intensive applications. This marks a significant milestone in the global accessibility of the hardware needed to build AI applications, from drones to medical devices to automated factories and robots.

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KAUST HACKATHON SHOWS OPENACC GLOBAL APPEAL

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OpenACC’s global attraction can be seen in the recent February 2017 OpenACC mini-hackathon and GPU conference at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science & Technology) in Saudi Arabia. OpenACC was created so programmers can insert pragmas to provide information to the compiler about parallelization opportunities and data movement operations to and from accelerators. Programmers use pragmas to work in concert with the compiler to create, tune and optimize parallel codes to achieve high performance.

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THE AI PODCAST: AI TAKES WING- DEEP LEARNING HEARS ONCE EXTINCT BIRD

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Now, thanks to deep learning, biologists can alight on remote islands with just a dozen sensors, leave, and return months later to scoop up vast quantities of data.

The data — far more than any one human can analyze — is then crunched by deep learning systems developed by Conservation Metrics, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., and trained with NVIDIA GPUs.The results are uncanny. Biologists can now use sensitive microphones track how often endangered birds run into obstacles over many months. They’ve even used the technology to find — and protect — birds that were once thought extinct.

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HOW DEEP LEARNING IS TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE

Deep learning has been used to transform artificial intelligence (AI) development, whether it is from beating players in games like Go or poker to improving self-driving AI. But perhaps the most important changes for most of us is how AI advances and machine learning are affecting healthcare. In January, a medical startup won FDA approval for an AI-assisted cardiac imaging system called Arterys, and AI is playing vital roles in other health fields such as fighting cancer and aging. NVIDIA boasts that with deep learning, “AI can help doctors make faster, more accurate diagnoses. It can predict the risk of a disease in time to prevent it.”

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SCIENTISTS USE IBM POWER SYSTEMS TO ASSEMBLE GENOME OF WEST NILE MOSQUITO

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 A team led by researchers from The Center for Genome Architecture (TC4GA) at Baylor College of Medicine have used technologies from IBM (NYSE: IBM), Mellanox and NVIDIA to assemble the 1.2 billion letter genome of the Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito, which carries West Nile virus. The new genome can help enable scientists to better combat West Nile virus by identifying vulnerabilities in the mosquito that the virus uses to spread.

The high performance computing (HPC) system dubbed "VOLTRON," is based on the IBM Power Systems platform, which provides scalable HPC capabilities necessary to accommodate a broad spectrum of data-enabled research activities. 

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