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.

Table 1. Function support on IBM Power vs. x86
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
Elastic distributed training support with RDMA over network support X