POWER8 High-performance Computing Guide IBM Power System S822LC (8335-GTB) Edition

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Software stack

This chapter describes the software stack that is used in the implementation of an IBM High Performance Computing (HPC) solution on an IBM POWER8 with the IBM Power System S822LC (8335-GTB) HPC server.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•8.1, “System management” on page 352

•8.2, “OPAL firmware” on page 352

•8.3, “xCAT” on page 353

•8.4, “RHEL server” on page 353

•8.5, “NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit” on page 353

•8.6, “Mellanox OFED for Linux” on page 354

•8.7, “IBM XL compilers, GCC, and Advance Toolchain” on page 355

•8.8, “IBM ...

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