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Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by avhception on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:26PM (#49456773)
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.
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Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by rbanffy on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:28PM (#49456791)
Yes. There was a generation of POWER that offered NVLink.
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Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by shrimppersimmon on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:44PM (#49458939)
In 2019 the two fastest machines in the world, Summit & Sierra (see top500.org) used ppc64le + Nvidia GPUs.
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Re:IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor f... by __lm__ on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:18AM (#49461077)
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.

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