ISC 2018: IBM Helps European Researchers Grab Hold of AI - THINK Blog

With the debut of the IBM POWER9-equipped Summit supercomputer, the world's smartest AI machine, IBM is putting our money where our mouth is when it comes to building data-centric systems. You see, it's no longer about which systems are the fastest, it's about systems that are designed to handle the massive amounts of data that AI and big data applications demand. Conversely, without the ability to ingest the volumes of data this system is capable of processing, the applications might not succeed, so that's why we embrace a data-centric approach. It all comes down to data. Of course, we're very proud of the reveal from the Top500 organization today that Summit and Sierra placed #1 and #3, respectively, on their LINPACK benchmark rankings, but speed is no longer the principle parameter to assess the value of these systems.