NVIDIA CUDA on IBM POWER8: Technical Overview, Software Installation, and Application
An IBM Redpaper publication
Published 29 March 2015
IBM Form #: REDP-5169-00
(72 pages)
Authors: Dino Quintero, Wei Li, Wainer dos Santos Moschetta, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira, Alexander Pozdneev
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Abstract
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.
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Table of contents
Advantages of NVIDIA on POWER8
The IBM Power Systems S824L server
Software stack
System monitoring
Application development
Tuning and debugging
Application examples