IBM Preps Power9 for AI and HPC Launch, Forges Big NUMA Iron

Re:IBM Preps Power9 for AI and HPC Launch, Forges Big NUMA Iron by sp332 on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:14AM (#15516416)

Raptor PCs are already taking pre-orders. https://raptorcs.com/content/base/products.html They start at $4,700 for a complete system (the desktop) or $2,400 if you just want the motherboard and one CPU.

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Re:IBM Preps Power9 for AI and HPC Launch, Forges Big NUMA Iron by rbanffy on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:31AM (#15516530)

I couldn't find the exact CPU model it can use.

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Re:IBM Preps Power9 for AI and HPC Launch, Forges Big NUMA Iron by sp332 on Friday October 20, 2017 @12:43PM (#15517154)

Are there different socket types for Power9 CPUs?

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Re:IBM Preps Power9 for AI and HPC Launch, Forges Big NUMA Iron by rbanffy on Friday October 20, 2017 @01:41PM (#15517673)

I have no idea. There is no ark.ibm.com :-(

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Re:IBM Preps Power9 for AI and HPC Launch, Forges Big NUMA Iron by sp332 on Friday October 20, 2017 @01:46PM (#15517712)

IBM only has 3 processors announced so far and they look pretty similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#Variants Also the CPU page https://raptorcs.com/content/CP9M01/intro.html says "additional Sforza CPU options are planned" so... they're probably Sforza.

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Re:IBM Preps Power9 for AI and HPC Launch, Forges Big NUMA Iron by rbanffy on Saturday October 21, 2017 @04:08AM (#15521125)

It seems they're all in the Sforza family. I'd like to see their bigger brothers, though this workstation seems quite impressive by itself.

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Re:IBM Preps Power9 for AI and HPC Launch, Forges Big NUMA Iron by torpcoms on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:34PM (#15535689)

The Zaius/Barreleye systems use the LaGrange chips instead; the quick breakdown I made for wikipedia was:

    Sforza —   50 mm × 50 mm,     4 DDR4, 48 PCIe Lanes, 1 XBus 4B
    Monza —    68.5 mm × 68.5 mm, 8 DDR4, 34 PCIe Lanes, 1 XBus 4B
    LaGrange — 68.5 mm × 68.5 mm, 8 DDR4, 42 PCIe Lanes, 2 XBus 4B

Though I have no idea what XBus is.

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