IBM recently announced a technical preview of Distributed Deep Learning (DDL) for TensorFlow and Caffe  in the IBM PowerAI 4.0.0 distribution  . IBM Research has demonstrated close to ideal scaling with DDL software achieving record communication overhead and 95% scaling efficiency on the Caffe deep learning framework over 256 NVIDIA GPUs in 64 IBM Power systems .  If you would like to try out DDL, the NIMBIX public cloud can get you started quickly. NIMBIX allows you to run Dockerized deep learning jobs in GPU attached... [More]

I’m excited to share with you that IBM has just released PowerAI release 4 which includes a technology preview of the record breaking Distributed Deep Learning technology we announced earlier this week. Drawing on IBM’s deep expertise in AI, in high-performance computing and system design, we have announced breakthrough results in both accuracy and performance in Deep Learning this week. Using a cluster of 64 IBM advanced Deep Learning Power servers with 256 GPUs, we demonstrated a new speed record for training today’s... [More]

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A new update release for the 10.0 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available. This release contains a series of updates, including: GCC provides: Fixes for ICE with vec_xxpermdi and unrecognizable insn with __builtin_crypto_vshasigmaw . Fix for bitfields cause load hit store with smaller store and larger load . POWER8 built-ins for vec_xl and vec_xst with short and char pointer arguments. New static var: rs6000_vect_nonmem. Fix for miscompile arithmetic with signed char . The GNU C Library provides: Fix for... [More]

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Some changes and issues have arisen since our  first post about running GPUs in containers on POWER .   The most exciting news is that the CUDA images have been pushed to Docker Hub, so you no longer have to build your own cuda, cudann5, or cudann6 images for ppc64le. We're working to get the others also pushed to Docker Hub, so stay tuned.   The nvidia-docker repo has undergone some recent changes. The biggest change is that image Dockerfiles are now hosted separately from the plugin... [More]

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We are pleased to share that Alpine is officially available for POWER and z. Many people were instrumental in making this possible: @leitao 110000JQ8Q , @4M9K_Roberto_Guimaraes 2700044M9K , and  Tuan Hoang, to name a few -- not to mention the amazing folks at Alpine.   In addition to Alpine being available, it is in Docker Hub for both architectures: POWER: https://hub.docker.com/r/ppc64le/alpine/ z: https://hub.docker.com/r/s390x/alpine/ Thanks to the folks at Infosiftr !   The first release made available is 3.6. For more... [More]

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A new update release for the 10.0 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available. This release contains a series of updates, including: GCC provides: Fix for incorrect code generation for __divkf3 . Fix for builtin expansion of strncmp crossing page boundary and memcmp builtin expansion sequence overflow . Fix ICEs in extract_insn , push_reload , gen_add2_insn , and rs6000_emit_swsqrt . New wA constraint . Fix for dxex[q] and diex[q] POWER builtins using wrong types . Binutils provides: POWER9 instructions scv and... [More]

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A new update release for the 8.0 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available.   This release include a series of fixes, including: GCC provides a fix for vec_cts/vec_ctf intrinsics produce wrong results for 64-bit floating point . Python provides fixes for CVE-2015-1283, CVE-2016-0772, CVE-2016-5636 and CVE-2016-5699. Fixed Power 8 tuned libraries.   For download links, more information and documentation, please refer to our official documentation page . Please let us know if you have... [More]

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We are excited to announce availability of PowerAI 3.4.   The focus in this release was to provide upgraded applications to stay current with the evolving Deep Learning frameworks; and to increase ease of use, simplify installation and help developers get started with developing their own cognitive applications.  We’re also publishing the initial version of the PowerAI Cluster Deployment Kit .   In this release, we are introducing cluster hardware deployment kits to simplify and accelerate PowerAI deployments in a... [More]

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I am excited to share with you that  DeepLearning4J (DL4J) , a Java-based open-source, distributed deep-learning toolkit for building, training and deploying Neural Networks is now available on Power. Following our foundational belief in collaborative innovation that inspires our work on the  PowerAI  ecosystem at large, the story of DeepLearning4J on Power is one of collaboration and hardware/software innovation, creating a system that combines best of breed hardware systems with innovative software... [More]

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A new update release for the 10.0 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available.   This release contains a series of features and fixes, including: GCC provides: Use of VSR when operating on float and integer . Fix for sanitizer stack trace missing frames past #0 . Fix an ICE in gcc.target/powerpc/signbit-3.c . The GNU C Library provides: Fix for write-after-destroy in lock elision . Fix writes past the allocated array bounds in execvpe . Binutils provides: Fix for looping in ppc64_elf_size_stubs . TOC... [More]

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Earlier this month Google's TensorFlow 1.0 was announced and dominated the sessions at the TensorFlow Dev Summit 2017. It's amazing to see how far the TensorFlow environment has come since its initial release a little over a year ago. If you missed the #TFdevsummit it's not too late, check out the replay here =>  https://goo.gl/0sySqI . As the TensorFlow ecosystem continues to grow, we are bringing these features to PowerAI to give Deep Learning developers the highest-performance and most cost-effective turnkey system.... [More]

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A new update release for the 9.0 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available.   This release provides some package updates, including: GCC provides a fix for the vector swap optimization. Oprofile provides support for the POWER 8 NV and NVL variants. Fixed Power 8 tuned libraries. For download links, more information and documentation, please refer to our official documentation page . Please let us know if you have any questions about this release.   About the IBM Advance Toolchain for... [More]

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The Advance Toolchain build scripts are available at GitHub: https://github.com/advancetoolchain/advance-toolchain It's open source under Apache 2.0 license, we accept contributions using the Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 process. Please let us know if you have any questions about it.   About the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power The IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is a set of open source development tools (compiler, debugger and profiling tools) and runtime libraries that allow users to take... [More]

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Watson, Siri, the Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa have inspired worldwide interest in deep learning and the promise it holds for artificial intelligence (AI) development. But today, deploying this technology can be costly and time-consuming, often requiring an in-house deep learning development group staffed with PhDs. That’s why IBM created  PowerAI , the world’s leading enterprise distribution and support for open-source machine and deep learning frameworks used to build cognitive applications.  IBM PowerAI... [More]

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