Function support on IBM Power vs. x86
IBM Watson® Machine Learning Accelerator can be run on both IBM® Power® and x86, but there are different functions supported on each platform.
| IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator function | IBM Power | x86 |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic Distributed Training (EDT) without RDMA | X | X |
| Job Orchestration & Cluster Management with Spectrum Conductor | X | X |
| Auto-Hyperparameter Optimization (Auto-HPO) | X | X |
| Distributed Deep Learning (DDL) for more than four server nodes | X | |
| EDT support with RDMA over network support | X |