IBM Power9 Server

IBM Power9 Server is a series of high-end enterprise-level servers and part of the company’s Power Systems line. Power9 is designed to deliver high-performance computing (HPC), speed and bandwidth for heavy workloads.

Power9 applications include in-memory databases, analytics, cloud environments and AI, particularly deep learning and machine learning. Power9 Servers are optimized for popular AI frameworks, including:

• TensorFlow: Google’s open source software library for numerical computation through data flow graphs
• Chainer: a neural network framework
• Caffe: a deep learning framework

While specifics vary among models, Power9 Server features may include:

• Power9 processor
• PowerVM, the Power Systems hypervisor, for dynamic scaling of compute resources and memory on demand
• PCI-Express 4.0
• OpenCAPI, a high-speed processor standard
• Chip-level security
• Lower software and hardware maintenance costs
• NVLink 2.0, a wire-based communications link by Nvidia, for faster data transport between the CPU and GPU
• Intelligent storage controllers
• Regulated power supplies
• Distributed system clocks that activate if the main system clock fails