The exploitation of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPUs) and modern multi-core processors in a single heterogeneous parallel system has proven highly efficient for running several technical computing workloads. This applied to a wide range of areas such as chemistry, bioinformatics, molecular biology, engineering, and big data analytics.

Recently launched, the IBM® Power System S824L comes into play to explore the use of the NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU, combined with the latest IBM POWER8™ processor, providing a unique technology platform for high performance computing.

This IBM Redpaper™ publication discusses the installation of the system, and the development of C/C++ and Java applications using the NVIDIA CUDA platform for IBM POWER8.

Advantages of NVIDIA on POWER8

The IBM Power Systems S824L server

Software stack

System monitoring

Application development

Tuning and debugging

Application examples