Machine Learning in the Ascendant

Last week, when I landed in New Orleans heading to the SC14 Supercomputing conference, my phone’s Google Now application told me about the local weather, and I searched for a good restaurant using voice commands in the taxi coming in.

Given where I was headed, it felt appropriate that these were running on some of the world’s largest supercomputers.  At the show itself, our booth’s mini-theater featured three days of talks by world-leading experts on supercomputers – and their use for weather and climate modeling, object recognition in images, and drug discovery.

Machine Learning in the Ascendant