Virginia M (Ginni) Rometty. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM. Photo courtesy of IBM

Armonk, NY, USA - December 05, 2017

• New Power Systems deliver nearly 4x deep-learning framework performance over x86

• POWER9 processor designed for AI workloads

• Google, Department of Energy’s "Summit' and "Sierra" tap POWER9

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled its next-generation Power Systems Servers incorporating its newly designed POWER9 processor.

Built specifically for compute-intensive AI workloads, the new POWER9 systems are capable of improving the training times of deep learning frameworks by nearly 4x allowing enterprises to build more accurate AI applications, faster.

Photo courtesy of IBM

The new POWER9-based AC922 Power Systems are the first to embed PCI-Express 4.0, next-generation NVIDIA NVLink and OpenCAPI, which combined can accelerate data movement, calculated at 9.5x faster than PCI-E 3.0 based x86 systems.

https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/us-en/resources/power/enterprise-ai/  

The POWER9 Processor The IBM POWER9 processor delivers unprecedented speeds for deep learning and AI workloads. IBM Engineer, Stefanie Chiras tests the IBM Power System server in Austin, Texas. Photo courtesy of IBM / Jack Plunkett / Feature Photo Service

The system was designed to drive demonstrable performance improvements across popular AI frameworks such as Chainer, TensorFlow and Caffe, as well as accelerated databases such as Kinetica.

Say hello to the POWER9 processor. Built from the ground-up for enterprise AI, POWER9 in the only processor with state-of-the-art I/O subsystem technology, including next generation NVIDIA NVLink, PCIe Gen4, and OpenCAPI. These interfaces give POWER9 a memory bandwidth superhighway that give you more accurate insights, faster. Photo courtesy of IBM

As a result, data scientists can build applications faster, ranging from deep learning insights in scientific research, real-time fraud detection and credit risk analysis.

Say hello to the POWER9 processor. Built from the ground-up for enterprise AI, POWER9 in the only processor with state-of-the-art I/O subsystem technology, including next generation NVIDIA NVLink, PCIe Gen4, and OpenCAPI. These interfaces give POWER9 a memory bandwidth superhighway that give you more accurate insights, faster. Photo courtesy of IBM

POWER9 is at the heart of the soon-to-be most powerful data-intensive supercomputers in the world, the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Summit”and “Sierra” supercomputers, and has been tapped by Google.

Bart Sano, VP of Google Platforms. VP of Platforms group responsible for the hardware and software development of Google's data center compute, storage, and networking infrastructure systems. Photo courtesy of LinkedIn

“Google is excited about IBM's progress in the development of the latest POWER technology," said Bart Sano, VP of Google Platforms.
"The POWER9 OpenCAPI Bus and large memory capabilities allow for further opportunities for innovation in Google data centers."

Bob Picciano, SVP of IBM Cognitive Systems. Photo courtesy of IBM

"We’ve built a game-changing powerhouse for AI and cognitive workloads,” said Bob Picciano, SVP of IBM Cognitive Systems.
“In addition to arming the world’s most powerful supercomputers, IBM POWER9 Systems is designed to enable enterprises around the world to scale unprecedented insights, driving scientific discovery enabling transformational business outcomes across every industry.”

Say hello to the POWER9 processor. Built from the ground-up for enterprise AI, POWER9 in the only processor with state-of-the-art I/O subsystem technology, including next generation NVIDIA NVLink, PCIe Gen4, and OpenCAPI. These interfaces give POWER9 a memory bandwidth superhighway that give you more accurate insights, faster. Photo courtesy of IBM

Accelerating the Future with POWER9

Deep learning is a fast growing machine learning method that extracts information by crunching through millions of processes and data to detect and rank the most important aspects of the data.

The POWER9 Processor The IBM POWER9 processor delivers unprecedented speeds for deep learning and AI workloads. IBM Engineer, Stefanie Chiras tests the IBM Power System server in Austin, Texas. Photo courtesy of IBM / Jack Plunkett / Feature Photo Service

To meet these growing industry demands, four years ago IBM set out to design the POWER9 chip on a blank sheet to build a new architecture to manage free-flowing data, streaming sensors and algorithms for data-intensive AI and deep learning workloads on Linux.

IBM is the only vendor that can provide enterprises with an infrastructure that incorporates cutting-edge hardware and software with the latest open-source innovations.

The POWER9 Processor The IBM POWER9 processor delivers unprecedented speeds for deep learning and AI workloads. IBM Engineer, Stefanie Chiras tests the IBM Power System server in Austin, Texas. Photo courtesy of IBM / Jack Plunkett / Feature Photo Service

With PowerAI, IBM has optimized and simplified the deployment of deep learning frameworks and libraries on the Power architecture with acceleration, allowing data scientists to be up and running in minutes.

IBM Research is developing a wide array of technologies for the Power architecture.

IBM researchers have already cut deep learning times from days to hours with the PowerAI Distributed Deep Learning toolkit.

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/scaling-tensorflow-and-caffe-to-256-gpus/  


Building an Open Ecosystem to Fuel Innovation

The era of AI demands more than tremendous processing power and unprecedented speed; it also demands an open ecosystem of innovative companies delivering technologies and tools.

OpenPOWER Foundation - Current Members - Platinum Level IBM serves as a catalyst for innovation to thrive, fueling an open, fast-growing community of more than 300 OpenPOWER Foundation and OpenCAPI Consortium members. Photo courtesy of OpenPOWER Foundation

IBM serves as a catalyst for innovation to thrive, fueling an open, fast-growing community of more than 300 OpenPOWER Foundation and OpenCAPI Consortium members.

https://openpowerfoundation.org/membership/current-members/  

http://opencapi.org/membership/current-members/  

OpenCAPI Consortium – Board Level IBM serves as a catalyst for innovation to thrive, fueling an open, fast-growing community of more than 300 OpenPOWER Foundation and OpenCAPI Consortium members. Photo courtesy of OpenCAPI Consortium

Learn more about POWER9 and the AC922: http://ibm.biz/BdjCQQ  

Read more from Bob Picciano, Senior Vice President, IBM Cognitive Systems:

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/think/2017/12/accelerating-ai/  


Contact information

Lori Bosio
IBM Media Relations
1 (914) 765-2367
bosiol@us.ibm.com  


Source: IBM News room

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