Putting the "AI" in PowerAI - IBM Blog Research

IBM's latest Power servers come with an AI twist. Optimized for deep learning, a new so-called PowerAI toolkit will "help train the systems to think and learn in a more human-like way, at a faster pace," as announced at SC16, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. I spoke with Hillery Hunter, IBM Research's director of Systems Acceleration and Memory and Memory Strategist, about her team's contribution to the software behind the world's fastest deep learning servers. Hillery Hunter: In this case, AI refers to a collection of deep learning frameworks and algorithms. Today's launch represents our first public offering in hardware-software co-optimization for deep learning.