PowerAI prerequisites
PowerAI is optimized to leverage the unique capabilities of IBM® Power Systems accelerated servers.
It is supported on:
- IBM Power® System AC922 with NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs
- IBM Power System S822LC with NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs
PowerAI requires some additional third-party software components.
| Component | Version | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 7.6 | 7.6 |
| Ubuntu | 18.04 | 18.04 |
| NVIDIA GPU driver | 418 | 418.40 |
| Anaconda | 2018.12 | 2018.12 |
Note: Starting in PowerAI 1.6.0, NVIDIA CUDA, cuDNN, and NCCL are distributed as Conda packages with
PowerAI. The versions included in 1.6.0 are CUDA 10.1, cuDNN 7.5, and NCCL 2.4.2.
Additional information
Developer resources can be found at IBM PowerAI developer portal .
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