IBM S822LC server Powers Tesla P100 deep learning
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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has been growing his company into something greater than a graphics chip vendor for some time now. A new partnership between IBM and Nvidia to make computer systems for deep-learning applications reinforces the idea that the graphics giant's technology can be put to more interesting uses than rendering video games at blistering frame rates. The fruit of IBM and Nvidia's collaboration is the Power System S822LC, a server that joins two eight or ten-core IBM Power8 CPUs with up to four Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs over Nvidia's NVLink architecture.
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