Nimbix contacted Dataversity recently to announce plans for expanding its performance leadership in cloud supercomputing with the addition of IBM’s recently launched Power Systems S822LC for High Performance Computing (HPC) platform featuring NVIDIA® Pascal™ GPUs. Nimbix will now put the capabilities of IBM Power Systems for HPC, based on the POWER8 with NVIDIA NVLink™ interconnect technology processor, and Nimbix’s JARVICE platform in the hands of developers and data scientists to achieve unprecedented performance.

The new IBM Power Systems S822LC for HPC stems from community innovation within the OpenPOWER Foundation and is fine-tuned for deep learning, artificial intelligence and cognitive computing. The new POWER8 with NVIDIA NVLink processor directly connects the POWER8 CPU with NVIDIA Tesla® P100 Pascal GPUs through NVIDIA NVLink, a high-speed, energy-efficient bidirectional interconnect. NVIDIA NVLink is embedded at the silicon level and incorporated into the overall system design. With this tight coupling of IBM and NVIDIA technology data can flow 5x faster than on a comparable competitive offering.

Offering this new platform on the Nimbix cloud enables the highest performance and ease of use for researchers, data scientists, and engineers looking to leverage optimized workflows. With a few mouse clicks, users can run massive computations such as accelerated analytics and neural network training without having to understand and configure toolkits and infrastructure first. Sample ready-to-run workflows include GPU-accelerated database systems and deep learning frameworks for both training and inference.

Read more at HPCwire.