AI - THE NEXT FRONTIER FOR HPC - Bob Crovella of NVIDIA

Bob Crovella joined NVIDIA in 1998 and leads a technical team that is responsible for supporting GPU Computing Products. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Bob worked in various engineering positions at Honeywell and Kodak, and holds an MEng from Rensselaer Polytechnic in Signal Processing.

His talk will start with a brief introduction to why GPUs are helpful when training deep neural networks. He will then discuss the software offerings from NVIDIA, namely cuDNN and DIGITS from the perspective of how they fit together with frameworks like Caffe, Torch, and Theano. Finally, he'll run through a demonstration of how to productively build models using AWS EC2 instances.