IBM 'Minsky' HPC Boasts Two Power8 CPUs, Four Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs

[Lucian Armasu]

IBM announced new server systems based on its updated Power8 CPUs and Nvidia's latest Tesla P100 GPUs for deep learning applications. IBM's new systems promise up to 80% increased performance per dollar spent compared to Intel-based configurations.

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[CompGee]

Glad to see the CPUs making their way back to popularity!

 

[bit_user]

While I welcome the revival of Power, I lament the rise of NVLink. If I were a customer with clout (e.g. Google, Facebook, Alibaba, etc.), I'd push Nvidia and IBM to offer support for PCIe 4.0, as soon as feasible. I'm continually amazed at the degree of vendor lock-in that Nvidia's customers are willing to accept. Proprietary APIs and languages, proprietary bus standards... what's next?

Anyway, I'd love to hear about someone using these things for VR. Raytracing, just for starters...

BTW, I pretty much lost interest in ever owning a Mac, after they dropped PowerPC.