Operating System Support; Ubuntu; Additional Information - IBM Power Systems S822LC Technical Overview And Introduction

The Tesla P100 was built to deliver exceptional performance for the most demanding
compute applications, delivering:
5.3 TFLOPS of double precision floating point (FP64) performance
10.6 TFLOPS of single precision (FP32) performance
21.2 TFLOPS of half-precision (FP16) performance
In addition to the numerous areas of high performance computing that NVIDIA GPUs have
accelerated for a number of years, most recently Deep Learning has become a very important
area of focus for GPU acceleration. NVIDIA GPUs are now at the forefront of deep neural
networks (DNNs) and artificial intelligence (AI). They are accelerating DNNs in various
applications by a factor of 10x to 20x compared to CPUs, and reducing training times from
weeks to days. In the past three years, NVIDIA GPU-based computing platforms have helped
speed up Deep Learning network training times by a factor of fifty. In the past two years, the
number of companies NVIDIA collaborates with on Deep Learning has jumped nearly 35x to
over 3,400 companies.
New innovations in the Pascal architecture, including native 16-bit floating point (FP)
precision, allow GP100 to deliver great speedups for many Deep Learning algorithms. These
algorithms do not require high levels of floating-point precision, but they gain large benefits
from the additional computational power FP16 affords, and the reduced storage requirements
for 16-bit datatypes.
For more detailed information on the NVIDA Tesla P100, see:
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-pascal/

1.3 Operating system support

The Power S822LC (8335-GTB) server supports Linux, which provides a UNIX like
implementation across many computer architectures.
For more information about the software that is available on Power Systems, see the Linux on
Power Systems website:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/linux/index.html
The Linux operating system is an open source, cross-platform OS. It is supported on every
Power Systems server IBM sells. Linux on Power Systems is the only Linux infrastructure that
offers both scale-out and scale-up choices.

1.3.1 Ubuntu

Ubuntu Server 16.04, at the time of writing, is the supported OS for the S822LC.
For more information about Ubuntu Server for Ubuntu for POWER8, see the following
website:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/power8

1.3.2 Additional information

For more information about the IBM PowerLinux™ Community, see the following website:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl
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