| ▲ | avhception 20 hours ago | |
At least back in the day, there was talk about Nvidia + ppc64le. Wasn't there even a supercomputer with that setup? But I guess that has fallen by the wayside. | ||
| ▲ | __lm__ 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
We have some older Power9 with NVIDIA V100. Nvidia drivers stopped a while ago (before V100 were considered “old” also for x86_64). The main problem is software support by most machine learning libraries. While it is normal to have to compile many things from source when the binary is not provided even by some third party, in some cases the software will not compile on ppc64le and surely is not tested to work. | ||
| ▲ | shrimppersimmon 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
In 2019 the two fastest machines in the world, Summit & Sierra (see top500.org) used ppc64le + Nvidia GPUs. | ||
| ▲ | rbanffy 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Yes. There was a generation of POWER that offered NVLink. | ||