Comments on: Can IBM Get Back Into HPC With Power10? https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/07/12/can-ibm-get-back-into-hpc-with-power10/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 20 Jul 2022 23:42:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Roger Gong https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/07/12/can-ibm-get-back-into-hpc-with-power10/#comment-194463 Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:22:07 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140895#comment-194463 No matter it’s AIX or Linux running on power machine, our software can make it more secure by providing a true zero trust computing environment.

]]> By: PAUL https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/07/12/can-ibm-get-back-into-hpc-with-power10/#comment-194116 Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:08:17 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140895#comment-194116 Does IBM want to be in the HPC business? They clearly decided to stop investing in HPC-specific hardware when they gave up on Blue Gene and Torrent interconnect. Is there money to be made selling the power10 systems they already make into HPC if they don’t have to do any custom development? Maybe, but I bet there is market-specific investment (software, sales infrastructure) unique to the HPC market. It may not be worth it for IBM to capture a small piece of the HPC business, given the small margins. Also, I’m not sure how interested many customers are to port codes to power/aix or power/linux to get something that runs about as fast as x86, for (at best) the same price.

]]> By: Hubert https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/07/12/can-ibm-get-back-into-hpc-with-power10/#comment-194079 Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:10:39 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140895#comment-194079 I am glad that you are bringing IBM back to this discussion! As you reported at length (at least since 2019) they were leading the way to SerDes-oriented composability (especially with POWER10) and the HPC trend seems to be towards building upgradeable systems that would likely benefit most from the resulting ability to disaggragate heterogeneous subcomponents (OpenCAPI/CXL being to DDR-DIMMs as USB has been to printer parallel ports, potentially).

]]> By: Eric Olson https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/07/12/can-ibm-get-back-into-hpc-with-power10/#comment-194043 Wed, 13 Jul 2022 03:45:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140895#comment-194043 It’s interesting yields appear only to support 12 cores per chip right now. Even so, a system with 48 SMT8 cores still includes 384 threads.

Even without memory inception Power10 provides important diversity to the ecosystem of Linux-capable architectures. I wonder how widely IBM’s Redhat will get deployed and how well it runs compared to AIX.

On one hand, AIX doesn’t have to support all the weird combinations of efficiency and performance cores offered by other manufacturers for mobile and the desktop. On the other hand, the engineering needed to make Linux so flexible could also have led to greater algorithmic efficiency.

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