Linux Getting Driver Work To Support Tesla V100 NVLink GPUs On High-End POWER9 Servers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Getting Driver Work To Support Tesla V100 NVLink GPUs On High-End POWER9 Servers

IBM is working on the necessary upstream Linux kernel work for supporting the NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs on the POWER9 servers like what comprises the Sierra and Summit supercomputers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Kernel-POWER9-V100-Work

[milkylainen]

w00t! Now if Linux can get some proper NVLink support instead of patching via VFIO.

[SteamPunker]

I wonder if this could somehow help in getting NVIDIA graphics cards to work in home-built OpenPOWER systems based on Talos or Blackbird motherboards from Raptor Computing Systems. I know, I know, the whole point of such systems is to have a complete open auditable firmware-blob-free system, but it would still be cool to have a wide choice of high performance GPUs when building a system based on such a different architecture. 🙂

[speculatrix]

"like what comprises"
???!!