# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (August 4, 2016)

The log contained minimal substantive discussion, but these points were mentioned:

* Aurelius_Work asked kanzure about Greg Fahy's lab results for GDF11 (Growth Differentiation Factor 11), a protein being researched for potential anti-aging properties, to which kanzure confirmed having the results.

* Maaku thanked kanzure for sharing a high-quality speech recognition paper collection, suggesting ongoing research interest in audio processing technologies.

* Chris_99 mentioned a paper titled "Speech Acoustic Modeling from Raw Multichannel Waveforms" that uses Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to process raw audio input without preprocessing.

* There was discussion about GPU hardware for machine learning applications, with recommendations for NVIDIA cards (GTX 1060, 980, K40) optimized for maximum CUDA version support and RAM capacity.

* Participants discussed potentially setting up a shared server with 4 GPUs as a resource for the channel, with mentions of both NVIDIA GPUs (980 Ti, Titan X Pascal) and Intel's Xeon Phi/Knights Landing as hardware options.