Highlights From MI&S Analysts At #SC16

By Patrick Moorhead - November 19, 2016

High performance computing (HPC) is no longer the exclusive club for universities and national labs, it has extended to drug manufacturers, automakers, and now even the cloud giants like Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon AWS are getting into the action. The one show where everyone gets together to show off their HPC wares and research research is at a show aptly called Super Computing. The Moor Insights & Strategy analyst team was in full force for the latest Super Computing 16 event known in short as SC16. The conference was held in Salt Lake City, Utah and Karl Freund and Jimmy Pike were on-site. We created a lot of content and I wanted to share that here in hopes that you will get a better view of what happened, didn’t happen there. As Intel’s AI (artificial intelligence) event was held right after SC16 and much of the SC16 content was AI, I have included that below.

Papers

RESEARCH PAPER/ Karl Freund: Lenovo: A Trusted Partner in HPC
RESEARCH PAPER/ Karl Freund: AMD’s ROCm Software Helps Accelerate HPC & Deep Learning
RESEARCH PAPER/ Karl Freund: Xilinx Reconfigurable Acceleration Stack Targets Machine Learning, Data, Analytics, & Video Streaming

Columns

Forbes/ Patrick Moorhead: With PowerAI, IBM Will Likely Accelerate Enterprise AI Trial And Adoption
Forbes/ Karl Freund: NVIDIA Is Not Just Accelerating AI, It Aims To Reshape Computing
Forbes/ Karl Freund: Xilinx Seeks To Mainstream FPGAs In The Datacenter
Forbes/ Karl Freund: Could AMD's New Software Be A Game Changer In The Datacenter?
Forbes/ Patrick Moorhead: Intel Lays Out Their Comprehensive AI Strategy At Their First "AI Day"
Forbes/ Jimmy Pike: Mellanox and HDR Infiniband
Forbes/ Karl Freund: Intel Commits To Nervana Roadmap For AI; First New Architecture In Decades

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Patrick founded the firm based on his real-world world technology experiences with the understanding of what he wasn’t getting from analysts and consultants. Ten years later, Patrick is ranked #1 among technology industry analysts in terms of “power” (ARInsights) in “press citations” (Apollo Research). Moorhead is a contributor at Forbes and frequently appears on CNBC. He is a broad-based analyst covering a wide variety of topics including the cloud, enterprise SaaS, collaboration, client computing, and semiconductors. He has 30 years of experience including 15 years of executive experience at high tech companies (NCR, AT&T, Compaq, now HP, and AMD) leading strategy, product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing, including three industry board appointments.