[Beowulf] Julia on POWER9?

John Hearns hearnsj at gmail.com
Fri Oct 16 02:02:29 PDT 2020


Hello Prentice. I think you need to come over to the Julia Discourse

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/knet-on-powerpc64le-platform/48149

On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 22:09, Joe Landman <joe.landman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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