HPC and HPDA for the Cognitive Journey with OpenPOWER

Deploying a cost-effective, high-performance, reliable and agile infrastructure

Published August 2016

Big Data has become characteristic of every computing workload. From its origins in research computing to use in modern commercial applications spanning across industries, data is the new basis of competitive value. The convergence of High Performance Computing (HPC), Big Data Analytics, and High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) is the next game-changing business opportunity. It is the engine driving a Cognitive organization with Data as its fuel.

But the volume, velocity and variety of data are creating barriers to performance and scaling in almost every industry. To meet this challenge, organizations must deploy a cost-effective, high-performance, reliable and agile infrastructure to deliver the best possible business and research outcomes. This is the goal of IBM’s data-centric design of Power Systems and solutions from the OpenPOWER Foundation for HPC and HPDA.