RE: Interesting read on "statement of direction" on announcement on even more Power 7 hardware withdrawals

Maybe, maybe not. I'll grant you it looks like they are for systems that are
not going to be available soon, however it depends on the PCIe 4 cards they
have in wait for announcement and if the PCIe cards in that list have been
problematic for drivers PTFs etc. In my view most of the cards that are
listed are or can be problematic so they might very well be getting ready
to replace them.

Only an announcement will tell, however I'll start concentrating on finding
those cards in my customer machines so that when we configure the next round
of upgrades, if they are no longer available, we'll already have a plan for
it. The one thing I don't like is surprises, and IBM is going out of its
way to avoid them at this point.

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Roberto José Etcheverry Romero
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I'm not sure. Are the withdrawals for ALL the machines or only for the
machines in the announcement? I doubt they would withdraw current PCIe3
cards...

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you look at the list of cards, all the PCIe and PCIe2 cards are on
that list, most of not all anyway.

A fair number of PCie3 cards are on that list too.

The clue phone is ringing.........


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Interesting read on "statement of direction" on announcement on even
more Power 7 hardware withdrawals
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=
AN&subtype=CA&ht
mlfid=897/ENUS917-156&appname=USN

<snip>
Statement of direction
Cognitive, HPC, and high-performance data analytics workloads are
driving an ever-growing set of data-intensive challenges that can be
met with accelerated infrastructure. To help meet these demands, IBM
Cognitive Systems intends to announce a next-generation AI, HPC, and
high-performance data analytics server leveraging IBM's
next-generation POWERR processor with embedded next-generation NVLink
between the processor and the NVIDIA Tesla
V100 with NVLink GPU. This integrated architecture is planned to
enable differentiated acceleration for data and compute-intensive
workloads that leverage high data throughput enabled by fast data
transfer between CPU and GPU to supplement NVLink bandwidth between GPUs.
</snip>

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