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16 Jan, 2015 NVIDIA Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform for IBM Power

Abstract Learn how applications can be accelerated on IBM Power8 systems with NVIDIA® Tesla® Accelerated Computing Platform, the leading platform for accelerating big data analytics and scientific computing. The platform combines the world's fastest GPU accelerators, the widely used CUDA® parallel computing model, NVLink, high-speed GPU interconnect to power supercomputers, and a comprehensive ecosystem of software developers, software vendors, and datacenter system OEMs...

16 Jan, 2015 Enabling Coherent FPGA Acceleration

Speaker: Allan Cantle – President & Founder, Nallatech Speaker Organization: ISI / Nallatech Presentation Objective To introduce the audience to IBM’s Coherent Attached Processor Interface, CAPI, Hardware Development Kit, HDK, that is provided by Nallatech and provide an overview of FPGA Acceleration. Abstract Heterogeneous Computing and the use of accelerators...

16 Jan, 2015 The Future of Interconnect with OpenPOWER

Abstract Mellanox Technologies is a founding member of the OpenPOWER Foundation and is also the foundation for scalable and performance demanding computing infrastructures. Delivering 100Gb/s throughput, sub 700ns application to application latency and message rates of 150 million messages per second, Mellanox is recognized as the...

16 Jan, 2015 One-click Hadoop cluster deployment on OpenPower systems running KVM and managed by Openstack

Hadoop workloads are memory and compute intensive and Power servers are best choice for hadoop workloads. The Power servers are first processor designed to accelerate big data workloads. We implemented PowerKVM based Hadoop cluster solution on Power Systems and validated performance of teradata workload on PowerKVM...

16 Jan, 2015 Porting Scientific Applications to OpenPOWER

Speaker and co-authors Dirk Pleiter (Jülich Supercomputing Centre) Andrew Adinets (JSC), Hans Böttiger (IBM), Paul Baumeister (JSC), Thorsten Hater (JSC), Uwe Fischer (IBM) Abstract While over the past years significant experience for using GPUs with processors based on the x86 ISA has been obtained, GPU-accelerated systems with POWER processors...

16 Jan, 2015 Using Docker in High Performance Computing in OpenPOWER Environment

Introduction to Authors Min Xue Bin: Male, IBM STG China, advisory software engineer, LSF developer, mainly focus on High Performance Computing. Ding Zhao Hui: Male, IBM STG China, Senior LSF architect, mainly focus on LSF road map. Wang Yan Guang: Male, IBM STG China, development manager for LSF/LS. Background OpenPOWER...

16 Jan, 2015 Introducing the Little-Endian OpenPOWER Software Development Environment and its application programming interfaces

Presented by: Michael Gschwind Over the past three decades, the Power Architecture has been an important asset in IBM’s systems strategy. During the time, Power-based systems powered desktops, technical workstations, embedded devices, game consoles, supercomputers and commercial UNIX servers. The ability to adapt the architecture to new requirements...

16 Jan, 2015 Changing the Game: Accelerating Applications and Improving Performance For Greater Data Center Efficiency

Abstract Planning for exascale, accelerating time to discovery and extracting results from massive data sets requires organizations to continually seek faster and more efficient solutions to provision I/O and accelerate applications. New burst buffer technologies are being introduced to address the long-standing challenges associated with the...

16 Jan, 2015 How Ubuntu is enabling OpenPOWER and innovation Randall Ross (Canonical)

Objective Geared towards a business audience that has some understanding of POWER and cloud technology, and would like to gain a better understanding of how their combination can provide advantages for tough business challenges. Abstract Learn how Canonical's Ubuntu is enabling OpenPOWER solutions and cloud-computing velocity. Ubuntu is...

16 Jan, 2015 Accelerator Opportunities with OpenPower

Abstract The OpenPower architecture provides unique capabilities which will enable highly effective and differentiated acceleration solutions. The OpenPower Accelerator Workgroup is chartered to develop both hardware the software standards which provide vendors the ability to develop these solutions. The presentation will cover an overview of the...

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