WML CE system setup

Operating system

The Deep Learning packages require specific operating systems:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.6 little endian for POWER9™

• WML CE can be installed and run directly on a bare-metal RHEL 7.6 system.
• WML CE can also be run from a container on a RHEL 7.6 system.
  Note: nvidia-docker 2.0 is not supported in this environment.
• The RHEL installation image and license must be acquired from Red Hat

RHEL 7.7 little endian

• WML CE can be installed and run directly on a bare-metal RHEL 7.7 system.
• WML CE can be run from a container on a RHEL 7.7 system. For more information about setting up a container to run WML CE, see the appropriate topic:
  • For POWER9: Using nvidia-docker 2.0 with RHEL 7
  • For x86, use these instructions: Using nvidia-docker 2.0 with RHEL 7, but use this version of Docker instead of 2.0: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/
  Using nvidia-docker 2.0 with RHEL 7.
• The RHEL installation image and license must be acquired from Red Hat.

Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

• WML CE can be installed and run directly on a bare-metal Ubuntu 18.04.1 system
• WML CE can also be run from a container on a Ubuntu 18.04.1 system. For more information about setting up a container to run WML CE, see Using nvidia-docker 2.0 with RHEL 7.
• The Ubuntu installation image can be downloaded from Ubuntu

For more information about installing operating systems on IBM® Power® Systems servers, see Quick start guides for Linux on IBM® Power System servers.