IBM POWER AC922, V100 16GB NVLINK

[agent71]

Hi

I have 12 x IBM POWER AC922 available sat in an engineering lab running Redhat Linux.

I don't see any ppc64le rpms for the folding clients and doesn't appear to be any source code we can download to compile ourselves.

What can I do to add them to folding@home?

Spec as follows:

12 x IBM AC922 POWER 9 nodes

Each of the 12 nodes has:
40 cores 2.0 GHz (2.87 Turbo GHz)
4 x Nvidia V100 16GB with NVLINK

Thanks

[toTOW]

Sorry, Folding@Home development resources are limited, and we only support "@Home" type of architectures : x86-64 on Windows/Linux/OSX.

Unless you manage to run it with some kind of emulation or virtualization or move the GPUs to x86-64 compatible machines, there's nothing you can do.

[JimboPalmer]

He can't move the GPUs, they are NVLink not PCIE.

[agent71]

Thanks for responding.

That's unfortunate and shame that source code not available.

[JimboPalmer]

That's unfortunate and shame that source code not available.

The underlieing source code is available, what is proprietary is the communications code. Sadly reality means people would try to cheat to get points they did not earn.

http://www.gromacs.org/ CPUs
http://openmm.org/ GPUs

[Russler]

A compilable client should be a higher priority. Fix the points system later.

[Joe_H]

A compilable client should be a higher priority. Fix the points system later.

There is a very small group doing the development, currently concentrating on getting more servers up, points are second. Creating a new client and the folding cores to along with that and support a different architecture would be months at least in the future.

There was work being done to make more of the client open source, that is currently on hold meeting the current response to COVID-19.