A new update release for the 10.0 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available.   This release provides new features and many package updates, including: POWER9 tuned libraries. The GNU C Library provides: POWER9 implies fixed. Fixes powerpc ifunc-sel.h with GCC 6 and ifunc-sel.h asm constraints and clobber list . Fix for argp.h overwriting GCC keywords with macros . Fix for objects in libc.a being overwritten in other static libraries . Binutils provides: POWER9 support matching final ISA 3.0. Fix for... [More]

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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]

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  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]

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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]

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If you would like to learn more about CPU frequency scaling for Power systems running Linux, check out this blog on the new Linux on IBM Power Systems Developer portal : https://developer.ibm.com/linuxonpower/2016/10/12/cpu-frequency-scaling-on-ibm-power-systems-running-linux/   This how-to describes multiple ways to read the current CPU frequency and examples of methods that can be used to customize the configuration such as limiting the max scaling frequency or setting a user configured static CPU frequency.

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]

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My new blog entry: Enable System Native BLAS library for netlib-java on OpenPOWER Linux Systems on the Linux on IBM Power Systems Developer portal provides instructions on enabling a System Native BLAS library for netlib-java on OpenPOWER Linux distributions, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (little-endian) and subsequent releases. 

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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]

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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, we have also... [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 provides many package updates, including: GCC 6.2 Glibc 2.24 Binutils 2.27 GDB 7.11 Support for Ubuntu 16.04. GCC provides fixes for complex IEEE 128-bit floating point and support for IEEE 128-bit floating point built-ins. GCC creates binaries using --mcpu=power8 --mtune=power8 by default on ppc64le. Valgrind provides a fix for missing support for wbit field on mtfsfi instruction . Valgrind Itrace provides a new option to... [More]

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Recently saw some email exchanges around a team porting a software package which used the Intel SSSE3 instruction set  ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSSE3 ). New users to Power8 may not know where processor and instruction sets are documented for the POWER architecture.   OpenPower and Power.org are good places to find the "ISA" documentation (the instruction set architecture) for POWER.   Some people may call this type of document a "compiler writers reference".    Naturally, this ISA document is... [More]

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Interesting development on support offerings from IBM and the IBM Technical Support Services teams (aka TSS) for CentOS. A new support offering was announced - available later this month - for getting help, assistance and support on CentOS deployments on selected IBM Power8 systems   The title of the Announcement: IBM Support Line for Linux OSS on Power Systems offers remote CentOS technical support to help you supplement your technical staff An example of the full announcement text is available here .  This link was the U.S.... [More]

Have you heard about the IBM SDK for Linux on Power ? Do you worry about the time you might need to learn how to use it, or find it too intimidating to try out? To ease the effort, a few basic video walk-throughs are now available to show you typical SDK use-cases. The videos are now available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUHQs-GmUIRbCsNtjcTAIFpZdvmhEPjq . Part 1 : Getting started: Import, port, and run a makefile-based project from your laptop On your laptop computer, launch the SDK Import a... [More]

Technology heavily depends on the server infrastructure that lies behind the scenes of everyday services. It is imperative that security is ensured for these critical systems. System uptime and data integrity are constantly under fire from malicious entities.    System developers and administrators are responsible for securing these systems from attackers. Security audits on system configurations, utilization of tools to seek out and execute known exploits, and testing system applications before deployment can lead to found issues... [More]