[Beowulf] Julia on POWER9?

Joe Landman joe.landman at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 14:08:54 PDT 2020


Cool (shiny!)

On 10/15/20 5:02 PM, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:
> So while you've all been discussing Julia, etc., I've been trying to 
> build and get it running on POWER9 for a cluster of AC922 nodes (same 
> as Summit, but with 4 GPUs per node). After doing a combination of 
> Google searching and soul-searching, I was able to get a functional 
> version of Julia to build for POWER9. However, I'm not 100% sure my 
> build is fully functional, as when I did 'make testall' some of the 
> tests failed.
>
> Is there anyone on this list using or supporting the latest version of 
> Julia, 1.5.2, on POWER9? If so, I'd like to compare notes. I imagine 
> someone from OLCF is on this list.
>
> Based on my Internet searching, as of August 2019 Julia was being used 
> on Summit on thousands of cores, but I've also seen posts from the 
> Julia devs saying they can't support the POWER architecture anymore 
> because they no longer have access to POWER hardware. Most of this 
> information comes from the Julia GitHub or Julia Discourse conversations.
>
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