Among the many areas that IBM is pushing forward with its Power architecture is in deep learning. Today IBM announced a new tool called PowerAI that aids in helping organizations learn things faster in a bid to generate advanced artificial intelligence capabilities.
“PowerAI contains the major machine, deep-learning open-source software that we have optimized and compiled for our POWER8 with NVIDIA GPU servers,” Gupta told ServerWatch. “We are optimizing and getting the best performance out of the Power8 NVLink server and also from a cluster of these servers.”
The Power8 NVLink capabilities were first announced in September and provides improved I/O capabilities that come from NVIDA. According to IBM’s testing, the POWER8 with NVIDIA NVLink provides a 5x improvement in terms of bandwidth.