PowerAI system setup
Find information to set up your operating system, repository, and NVIDIA components.
Operating system
The Deep Learning packages require specific operating systems:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.6 little endian for IBM® POWER8® and IBM POWER9™
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- PowerAI can be installed and run directly on a bare-metal RHEL 7.6 system
- PowerAI can also be run from a container on a RHEL 7.6 system. For more information about setting up a container to run PowerAI, see Using nvidia-docker 2.0 with RHEL 7
- The RHEL installation image and license must be acquired from Red Hat
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for IBM Power
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- PowerAI can be installed and run directly on a bare-metal Ubuntu 18.04 system
- PowerAI can also be run from a container on a Ubuntu 18.04 system
- The Ubuntu installation image can be downloaded from Ubuntu
For more information about installing operating systems on IBM Power Systems servers, see Quick start guides for Linux on IBM® Power System servers.