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IBM XL compilers featuring high performance computing capabilities are available in IBM Power HPC Stack V1.1

By Archive User posted Thu March 09, 2017 09:13 PM

  

Originally posted by: ChristineLi


Stack overview
IBM® Power® High Performance Computing (HPC) Stack is a single orderable product that includes a ready-to-go factory-installed software bundle with the following capabilities:
  • GPU-enabled workload management for demanding, distributed, and mission-critical science and engineering computing environments
  • Monitoring, alerting, and log analytics for optimal operational management
  • Workflow, license management, and intelligent policy-driven scheduling, all designed to work together to address HPC needs
  • Application-centric workload submission and management to improve end-user productivity
  • IBM POWER8® optimized development and runtime environments using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) for its parallel version
IBM Power HPC Stack V1.1 is available on March 10, 2017. Order now!

 

Benefits of the stack
With IBM Power HPC Stack, you can enjoy the simplified purchasing experience and streamlined installation procedure on IBM Power System S822LC (Minsky) hardware with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (ppc64le) software. For example, you can easily perform the following tasks by using IBM Power HPC Stack:
  • Remotely deploy an IBM Power HPC Stack cluster
  • Verify the cluster with the help of an automated end-to-end system validation tool
  • Integrate the Power HPC Stack into your corporate network environment

 

Stack details
IBM Power HPC Stack V1.1 includes the following offerings:
  • IBM XL C/C++ compiler, V13.1.5
  • IBM XL Fortran compiler, V15.1.5
  • IBM Parallel ESSL for Linux on Power, V5.3
  • IBM Parallel Performance Toolkit for Power, V2.3.0.1
  • IBM Spectrum™ LSF® Suite (LSF, MPI*, Cluster Foundation, and Application Center Process Manager), V10.1.1
  • IBM Spectrum Scale™ Client, V4.2.2 PTF2
  • IBM Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL) for Linux, V5.5
Note: * The version of Spectrum MPI is 10.1.0.1.

 

XL compilers delivered by the stack
With XL C/C++, V13.1.5 and XL Fortran, V15.1.5, you can accelerate applications by offloading computation and data to the NVIDIA GPUs by using a number of OpenMP 4.5 features. XL Fortran, V15.1.5 also provides partial support for CUDA Fortran.
You can find more information about available features and reference materials at:
XL C/C++: www.ibm.com/software/products/en/xlcpp-linux

XL Fortran: www.ibm.com/software/products/en/xlfortran-linux

 

Support for the offerings delivered by the stack
As a customer of IBM Power HPC Stack, you can seek support via Support Portal. The support requirements are distributed to the experts in charge of each component. For example, the XL compiler team will respond to the support requirements on XL C/C++, V13.1.5 and XL Fortran, V15.1.5.
You can also get offering updates via Fix Central. Under the product group of IBM Power HPC Stack, choose the product of your interest. Note that all versions of the selected product are displayed instead of only the version supported by IBM Power HPC Stack V1.1.

 

Reference

More information about IBM Power HPC Stack is available in IBM Knowledge Center.

 


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