GPU Cluster Power9¶
Overview¶
The multi-GPU cluster Power9 was installed in 2018. Until the end of 2023, it was available as
partition power within the now decommissioned Taurus system. With the decommission of Taurus,
Power9 has been re-engineered and is now a homogeneous, standalone cluster with own
Slurm batch system and own login nodes.
Hardware Resources¶
The hardware specification of the cluster Power9 is documented on the page
HPC Resources.
We provide additional architectural information in the following.
The compute nodes of the cluster Power9 are built on the base of
Power9 architecture from IBM.
The system was created for AI challenges, analytics and working with data-intensive workloads and
accelerated databases.
The main feature of the nodes is the ability to work with the
NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU with NV-Link
support that allows a total bandwidth with up to 300 GB/s. Each node on the
cluster Power9 has six Tesla V100 GPUs. You can find a detailed specification of the cluster in our
Power9 documentation.
Note
The cluster Power9 is based on the PPC64 architecture, which means that the software built
for x86_64 will not work on this cluster.
Usage¶
Containers¶
If you want to use containers on Power9, please refer to the page
Singularity for Power9 Architecture.
Power AI¶
There are tools provided by IBM, that work on cluster Power9 and are related to AI tasks.
For more information see our Power AI documentation.