[slurm-users] Power9 ACC922

[Fulcomer, Samuel]

We went straight to ESSL. It also has FFTs and selected LAPACK, some with
GPU support (
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_sm/1/872/ENUS5765-L61/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en
).

I also try to push people to use MKL on Intel, as it has multi-code-path
execution (we have a mix of architectures in our default patch partition).

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 1:59 PM Prentice Bisbal <pbisbal at pppl.gov> wrote:

> Thanks for the info. Did you try building/using any of the open-source
> math libraries for Power9, like OpenBLAS, or did you just use ESSL for
> everything?
>
> Prentice
>
> On 4/16/19 1:12 PM, Fulcomer, Samuel wrote:
>
> We had an AC921 and AC922 as a while as loaners.
>
> We had no problems with SLURM.
>
> Getting POWERAI running correctly (bugs since fixed in newer release) and
> apps properly built and linked to ESSL was the long march.
>
> regards,
> s
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 12:59 PM Prentice Bisbal <pbisbal at pppl.gov> wrote:
>
>> Sergi,
>>
>> I'm working with Bill on this project. Is all the hardware
>> identification/mapping and task affinity working as expected/desired
>> with the Power9? I assume your answer implies "yes", but I just want to
>> make sure.
>>
>> Prentice
>>
>> On 4/16/19 10:37 AM, Sergi More wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > We have a Power9 cluster (AC922) working without problems. Now with
>> > 18.08, but have been running as well with 17.11. No extra
>> > steps/problems found during installation because of Power9.
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Sergi.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 16/04/2019 16:05, Bill Wichser wrote:
>> >> Does anyone on this list run Slurm on the Sierra-like machines from
>> >> IBM?  I believe they are the ACC922 nodes.  We are looking to
>> >> purchase a small cluster of these nodes but have concerns about the
>> >> scheduler.
>> >>
>> >> Just looking for a nod that, yes it works fine, as well as any issues
>> >> seen during deployment.  Danny says he has heard of no problems but
>> >> that doesn't mean the folks in the trenches haven't seen issues!
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Bill
>> >>
>>
>>
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