We are excited to announce the integration of Anaconda for Linux with IBM Cloud Pak® for Data on IBM Z®, offering a powerful, cloud-native solution that accelerates data science and AI initiatives. This collaboration enables seamless data management, model training, and deployment, leveraging the advanced capabilities of IBM's infrastructure. Data scientists can apply this integration to harness the full potential of open-source tools and frameworks to drive innovation and efficiency in mission-critical workloads.
Benefits of Using Anaconda on IBM Z
IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z enables all your data users to collaborate from a single, unified interface that supports many services designed to work together including collecting data, organizing the data, analyzing the data, and infusing AI. Benefits include:
● Unified interface: A seamless experience for data management, enabling collaboration across data teams.
● Performance efficiency: Leverage the IBM Telum processor on-chip AI accelerator for optimized AI inferencing.
● Open-source integration: Access a vast ecosystem of Python packages and frameworks for diverse data science needs.
● Scalability: Easily scale your AI models to meet enterprise-level demands with IBM Z’s robust infrastructure.
These frameworks supported by IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z allow you to leverage the IBM Telum processor with the Integrated Accelerator for AI available on IBM z16® and IBM LinuxONE 4. AI models can be trained and deployed without any changes, exploiting the AI accelerator while inferencing real-time response rates that meet your service-level agreements.
Visualize, Build, and Train Models in One Place
With easy access to Anaconda’s secure software distribution, users can leverage popular open-source data science and Python packages and frameworks. Data scientists can leverage these industry-standard frameworks to discover, visualize, build, and train their models in thousands of libraries and packages such as PyTorch, Scikit-learn, and Matplotlib.
Access to Anaconda with Linux on IBM Z and IBM® LinuxONE includes:
● Conda: An open-source, language-agnostic package and environment manager that provides a unified solution for managing environments and packages, streamlining workflows for developers and researchers working with complex, mixed-language stacks
● Miniconda: A minimal installer for Conda, including only the package manager itself and its essential dependencies and pre-configured access to Anaconda's package repository
● Anaconda Package Security Manager: Anaconda’s premium package repository, with thousands of open-source packages, libraries, and frameworks
To learn more about open-source packages for data science and AI, visit Anaconda’s download page. To get started with Anaconda for Linux on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE review the product documentation. For additional questions or helpplease contact the IBM Linux on Z and IBM LinuxONE team at aionz@us.ibm.com.
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