INVITED TALK
Presenter: Pete Beckman
Time: Thursday, November 15th, 10:30am – 11:15am
Location: Exhibit Hall B
Description: The number of network-connected devices (sensors, actuators, instruments, computers, and data stores) now substantially exceeds the number of humans on this planet. Billions of things that sense, think, and act are connected to a planet-spanning network of cloud and high-performance computing centers that contain more computers than the entire Internet did just a few years ago. Parallel computation and machine learning are providing the basis for this new computing continuum that analyses data in-situ, and uses HPC to model, predict, and learn. This new paradigm is giving rise to intelligent cities, smart agriculture, and advanced manufacturing. The Amazon Inc. DeepLens system is an example of this new model that links machine learning at the edge to the cloud. Another example is the Waggle Platform, developed at Argonne National Laboratory. The Array of Things project at the University of Chicago is deploying hundreds of Waggle-based nodes with advanced wireless sensors in Chicago and other cities. Each of the nodes support parallel edge computing. This presentation will explore the computing continuum, and how artificial intelligence at the edge is now firmly connected to supercomputing.