Hello Adrian, thank you for your feedback.
Let’s hope Raptor will be successfully ;-) I googled a little bit around and found a Phoronix article about the Talos POWER8. He mentioned to use older Kepler cards (nVidia) or AMD cards. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=talos-workstation&num=1 The POWER9 system uses a AMD Polaris 10 XT. I hope a Polaris 12 XT will work also. OpenCL is supported also on PPC64el, I think. I found downloads on the IBM page. Best regards > Am 14.08.2017 um 20:41 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>: > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 11:42:11AM +0200, Carlos wrote: >> I would like to ask about the driver situation regarding PPC64le. >> Which one is to prefer? AMD or nVidia? > > You should actually elaborate a bit more what you are planning to do > with the graphcis hardware. On POWER8, people usually use such > graphics card to perform numerical calculations and for these > purposes, nVidia boards are usually the preferred choice as there is > very good upstream support for them. You can actually buy POWER8 > servers from IBM which come with nVidia hardware preinstalled [1]. > > The nVidia graphics drivers for "ppc64el" are currently not packaged > in Debian [2], but there are current drivers available upstream [3]. I > have no ideas though whether those will actually also work with normal > GeForce boards, those might be Tesla-only at the moment. > > I assume that nVidia would release GeForce drivers for POWER8 if there > were any POWER8-based workstations like the Talos available in larger > quantities. > > Adrian > >> [1] >> https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/ibm-nvidia-present-nvlink-server-youve-waiting/ >> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832899 >> [3] http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/122816/en-us > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
