The Machine Learning and Deep Learning project in IBM Systems is a broad effort to build a co-optimized stack of hardware and software to make IBM Power Systems the best platform to develop and deploy cognitive applications.   In addition to bringing to market our first server designed from ground up for cognitive computing with the S822LC , and building a  binary distribution of Deep Learning frameworks for Ubuntu 14.04 on Power,... [More]

Tags:  power-mldl digits5 #aot #cognitive mldl #powerai openblas power-ai #power cuda power8 powermldl deeplearning mass powerai #mldl s822lc blas digits #ibmaot openpower caffe power minsky

The Machine Learning and Deep Learning project in IBM Systems is a broad effort to build a co-optimized stack of hardware and software to make IBM Power Systems the best platform to develop and deploy cognitive applications.   In addition to bringing to market our  first server designed from ground up for cognitive computing with the S822LC , and building a ... [More]

Tags:  theano power minsky tensorflow power8 #mldl atlas cuda openpower #cognitive powermldl #aot openblas mldl mass torch blas s822lc deeplearning caffe #power

I am pleased to announce a major update to the deep learning frameworks available for OpenPOWER as software “distros” (distributions) that are as easily installable as ever using the Ubuntu system installer.   Significant updates to Key Deep Learning Frameworks on OpenPOWER Building on the great response to our first release of the Deep Learning Frameworks, we have made significant updates by refreshing all the available frameworks now available on OpenPOWER as pre-built binaries optimized for GPU acceleration: Caffe , a... [More]

Tags:  s822lc tensorflow minsky #power mldl #mldl openblas torch theano deeplearning mass caffe openpower powermldl power #cognitive atlas power8 #aot cuda blas

I am pleased to announce that several major deep learning frameworks are now available on the Power platform, as "distros" (distributions) that are easily installable using the Ubuntu system installer. Deep learning, or the use of multi-layer neural networks, has revolutionized speech recognition, natural language processing, and computer vision, and continues to to revolutionize IT due to availability of rich data sets, new methods for accelerating neural network training and extremely fast hardware with GPU accelerators. Deep... [More]

Tags:  torch theano power deeplearning power8 caffe openpower #cognitive cuda openblas mldl #aot tensorflow powermldl #mldl blas #power

It's here....the latest Linux Beta available on POWER8 systems is Ubuntu 16.04 from Canonical, and is a Long Term Support version.  There is no-charge for testing access, and you can get it through the Power Development Cloud.   To learn more about this free IBM system access, or to create your own personal reservation for Ubuntu 16.04 on a POWER8 server, go here , then choose the Programs tab and select "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Beta" for your reservation image.

Tags:  16.04 power8 pdp linux ubuntu

Working with Red Hat, we continue to expand our support for new IBM POWER8 systems hardware and features.  Our latest linkage with Red Hat revolves around the exciting new IBM Power System LC family of servers , and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 .   Just as IBM supported the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Beta within the Power Development Platform (PDP) program (Power Cloud), we’ll be doing the same with RHEL 7.2, but as an open Beta, available without Promo Code.  For no-charge cloud access for RHEL 7.2 , or other Operating... [More]

Tags:  rhel7.2 power8 pdp linux

Juju certainly isn’t the world’s best kept secret on quickly-and-easily modeling and bringing services to the Cloud, but what may be a more closely kept secret is that because IBM POWER8 supports Ubuntu, the power of POWER, coupled with the magic of Charms, brings open source cloud services modeling and orchestration to the world’s premier open server platform!  Consequently, whether you know about Juju and Charms, but not POWER, or vice-versa, you will find an unbeatable combination by combining the two.   First, a... [More]

Tags:  juju power8 charms

OpenStack Ironic project provides bare metal management functionality. Ironic leverages common bare metal provisioning technologies such as PXE boot and IPMI to cover a wide range of hardware. It also supports plugin architecture for vendor-specific functionality. OpenStack Ironic makes it possible to create baremetal cloud. In this article let us see how one can use OpenStack Ironic to create a baremetal cloud consisting of scale-out Power servers. The overall process is not very different than setting up baremetal cloud consisting of Intel... [More]

Tags:  scale-out ironic power power8

If any of you have been scratching your head about why building MySQL client libraries from source on the new POWER8 Ubuntu LE platform doesn't produce shared libraries (libmysqlclient.so) then please read on. Here are a few hacks which might also apply to other open source projects (more specifically their configure file and config.guess files) which have not kept up with the newest platforms. Here are the steps I used to compile libmysqlclient.so from source. wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-5.1.62.tar.gz untar... [More]

Tags:  mysql ubuntu power8 le

Docker is now part of  Ubuntu  Vivid Vervet  (15.04) for Power LE.  Ubuntu Vivid which just got released, includes docker (version 1.5) support. You can find the detailed release notes here . For using docker with Vivid on either baremetal or virtual machine on Power systems , just install it from the repository, start the docker engine and off you go. Using Docker Install Docker Package $sudo apt-get install docker.io Start the service and verify the installation $sudo service docker start $sudo docker info... [More]

Tags:  power8 docker ppc64el vivid

This paper describes the availability and use of the recently released Oracle 11gR2 Instant Clients.  These are used to develop applications on Linux on Power that need a connection to  the Oracle DB. Building an application with these Instant Clients allows the application to connect with an Oracle DB running on any platform Oracle delivers the database on. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Instant Client availability on Linux on Power Systems    

Tags:  rhel power8 sles power7+ mongodb applications power7

Excitement continues to build around Linux on IBM Power Systems from the first Scale-out POWER8 processor-based systems shipped in mid-2014 to the Enterprise POWER8 processor-based systems which began shipping in 4Q2014 and includes the Integrated Facility for Linux support. A big part of that excitement is around the new little endian distributions (Ubuntu and SLES), and their ties to the OpenPOWER Foundation (and the requirements it generates). Now, Red Hat has joined the party with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Beta for Power Systems based... [More]

Tags:  endianess power8 rhel

By: Jenifer Hopper   This article discusses some basic XML tuning tips for PowerKVM guests. It helps new users get started with editing guest XML definitions, and walks through some simple tuning examples.   The article covers various options to tune the guest disk, network, cpu, and memory. It also includes some example guest resource pinning configurations for different scenarios. Applying these tips may help improve application performance by ensuring your guest is configured properly and optimized for the KVM environment.

Tags:  powerkvm performance kvm powerlinux tuning power8

By: Paul Clarke. The IBM Power processor family has a somewhat hidden little gem which, when exploited, could yield signficant performance improvements.  IBM Power processors have a vector processing facility (known as AltiVec, VMX, and VSX in different incantations) which can perform multiple computations with a single instruction, also known as SIMD (single instruction, multiple data).  POWER8 has 64 "vector-scalar registers' (VSRs), the first 32 of which are shared space with the 32 floating point registers.  Each VSR... [More]

Tags:  vmx vector vsx power8 power altivec