Proposition: No speed limit on NVIDIA Volta with rise of AI - IBM Systems Blog: In the Making

This is an era of data-centric computing. For those in hardware engineering who embraced disruption over the past few years – my colleagues at IBM Cognitive Systems and our partner NVIDIA included – this sudden rise of AI-inspired applications is a once or twice-in-a-career thrill. From a practical perspective, we quickly realize that unbounded bandwidth, a sort of information superhighway inside computers with no speed limit, is a condition of unbounded software and algorithm innovation. As my generation learned so painfully, trying to use digital audio and video media in the early days of the internet, the best computer or network is the one that you don't have to think about or wait on endlessly. We're excited about the launch of NVIDIA's Volta GPU accelerators.Together with the NVIDIA NVLink "information superhighway" at the core of our IBM Power Systems, it provides what we believe to be the closest thing to an unbounded platform for those working in machine learning and deep learning and those dealing with very large data sets.