IBM Power9 Server
Contributor(s): Matthew Haughn
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
This was last updated in October 2018