Machine Learning is The Killer App for High Performance Computing

In November 2015 when NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang proposed that "machine learning is high performance computing's first killer app for consumers," there was only sketchy evidence to back up that claim. Today though, it looks like the NVIDIA chief was just a little ahead of his time. He went on to say that "supercomputing technology is in the process of extending well beyond supercomputing itself. These advancements are in the process of revolutionizing consumer applications, cloud services, the auto industry and autonomous machines." When Huang spoke those words at the 2015 Supercomputing Conference (SC15) in Austin, Texas, NVIDIA stock was trading at around $30 per share.