New article: IBM brings an open data science platform Anaconda for its cognitive systems read more at here http://www.spinonews.com/index.php/technology/item/3323-ibm-brings-an-open-data-science-platform-anaconda-for-its-cognitive-systems

IBM and Texas-based company Continuum Analytics to offer Anaconda, an open data science platform on IBM’s cognitive systems. Anaconda will also integrate with IBM’s PowerAI software distribution for machine learning and deep learning.

The Python-powered Anaconda platform counts more than 16 million downloads to date, the platform empowers leading businesses across industries worldwide with tools to identify patterns in data, uncover key insights and transform basic data into a goldmine of intelligence to solve the world's most challenging problems.

Bob Picciano, senior vice-president of Cognitive Systems, said, Anaconda is an important capability for developers building cognitive solutions, and now it's available on IBM's high performance deep learning platform. Anaconda on IBM Cognitive Systems empowers developers and data scientists to build and deploy deep learning applications that are ready to scale.

 

 

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Travis Oliphant, co-founder & chief data scientist, Continuum Analytics, said, Developers will also gain access to the libraries in IBM’s PowerAI Platform for exploration and deployment in Anaconda Enterprise. PowerAI reduces the complexity and risk of deploying these open source frameworks for enterprises.

The platform brings powerful capabilities for large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing to simplify package management and deployment.

Developers using open source ML/DL components will now be able to use Power as the deployment platform and take advantage of Power optimization & GPU differentiation for NVIDIA. 

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and other big companies recently began making deep learning capabilities available to their enterprise customers.