Cloud AI
Gaining an advantage in the global high-tech market is often the result of research and development (R&D) combined with execution and incremental improvement. Today’s emerging cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) platforms are a perfect example of R&D-fueled competition. With the cloud giants and many governments investing heavily in AI R&D, what’s a mere multinational corporation to do?
IBM IBM +0.12% spent the past few years restructuring to address the combination of “cognitive services” (AI-based services) and cloud platforms. During that time, IBM continued to invest in R&D, but focused their efforts on AI software, “as-a-service” initiatives and scale-out systems designed for delivering cloud-based analytics and AI services. As part of this transition, IBM opened its cloud infrastructure development to a much broader community and also partnered with other AI leaders like NVIDIANVDA +14.82% to provide high-performance AI systems.
In a few weeks, IBM will highlight all its efforts in AI at Think 2018, IBM’s combined partner, customer and developer conference, in Las Vegas. The following is what we expect to see at Think and why IBM should be successful in betting big on AI.
Partnerships for AI Acceleration
NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang will speak at the Think opening keynote “The Journey to AI” on Tuesday morning. IBM partnered with NVIDIA over the past several years to engineer some of the most advanced GPU-accelerated server systems in the industry today. Aspects of NVIDIA NVLink high-speed interconnect technology were designed into IBM’s Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) and then opened to a much broader server ecosystem via the OpenCAPI Consortium.
IBM has also worked closely with Mellanox Technologies,Micron Technology MU +2.88% and Xilinx XLNX +1.43% on network and compute acceleration solutions. In addition, NVIDIA, Mellanox, Micron and Xilinx are all board members of OpenCAPI and Platinum members of the OpenPOWER Foundation. IBM formed the OpenPOWER Foundation to foster a multi-vendor ecosystem around IBM’s POWER architecture. The third OpenPOWER Summit will be collocated with Think this year.
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