H2O.ai and IBM build a Strategic Partnership to bring AI innovation to the market together

Excited to announce our strategic partnership with IBM that allows them to resell and take to market H2O Driverless AI to businesses worldwide. This partnership makes AI economical – faster, cheaper and easier to do experiments. H2O Driverless AI and IBM POWER9 GPU Systems are bringing together the best of breed AI innovation. We have been working with IBM to port Driverless AI, our latest product that addresses the skills gap in data science and trust in AI, to IBM Power Systems. The combination delivers 5X performance for workloads including the new time series in Driverless AI. Please check out the blog by Sumit Gupta, VP of AI, Machine Learning and HPC at IBM Cognitive Systems, for more details on the partnership.

Outstanding performance on IBM POWER9

HPC is the new PC. To handle the increasingly complex workloads of AI you need an integrated system of software and hardware that is fully optimized for each other. H2O Driverless AI on IBM POWER9 delivers precisely that. IBM POWER9 supports nearly 2.6x more RAM, 9.5x more I/O bandwidth than comparable systems. It can also support upto 6 V100 GPUs on a single system. Driverless AI is built on top of datatable for python for data ingest and feature engineering and H2O4GPU for machine learning. We’ve been able to get nearly 2X the data ingest speed and over 50% faster feature engineering. In addition, with the power of GPU accelerated machine learning we’re able to deliver nearly 30X speedup on model building. Overall, we’ve been able to accelerate Driverless AI by up to 10X for IID data and up to 5X for time series data.

The Power of IBM and H2O.ai Solves Customer Challenges

AI will transform businesses as we know it. Companies will leverage AI across multiple business units and establish centers of excellence for AI. From asset price forecasting in capital markets, to supply chain optimization in manufacturing, to personalized insurance policies, no walk of business will be immune to pressures to democratize decision making with AI. IBM and H2O.ai will build the trusted hardware / software co-design needed for enterprises to make that transition. The winners of this partnership are our customers and their stories will be replicated across the ecosystem.
this will be fun, Sri