NVIDIA accelerates IBM POWER8 past Intel - Enterprise Times

At Supercomputer 16 (SC16) IBM and NVIDIA have announced what they call the fastest deep learning enterprise solution. The system is based on IBM Power System S822LC platforms that were announced in September. These systems contain the latest version of the IBM POWER8 processor that has NVIDIA NVLink embedded in it. IBM has also released a new deep learning toolkit called IBM PowerAI. The solution is capable of running AlexNet with Caffe up to 2x faster than equivalent systems. It is also capable of outperforming systems running AlexNet with BVLC Caffe using 8 M40 GU-based x86 systems.