IC922
IBM unveiled the Power Systems IC922 server last month. For those who haven't had time to dig into the details, here's an information roundup.
“IBM Power System IC922 provides the compute-intensive and low-latency infrastructure needed to unlock business insights from trained AI models. POWER9-based, Power IC922 provides advanced interconnects (PCIe Gen4, OpenCAPI) to support faster data throughput and decreased latency. Accelerated, the Power IC922 supports up to six NVIDIA T4 GPUs.”
IBM Power System IC922 (9183-22X) server using IBM POWER9™ processor-based technology and Supports Linux operating systems (OSes). The objective of this paper is to introduce the System offerings and their capacities and available features.
The IBM Power System IC922 server is built to delivers powerful computing, scaling efficiency, and storage capacity in a cost-optimized design to meet the evolving data challenges of the AI era, and include the following features:
- High throughput and performance for high-value Linux workloads, such as inferencing data or storage rich workloads, or cloud
- Potentially low acquisition cost through system optimization such as utilizing industry standard memory and warranty
- Two IBM POWER9 processor single-chip module (SCM) devices that provide high performance with 24, 32, or 40 fully activated cores and maximum 2 TB of memory
- Up to six NVIDIA T4 GPU accelerators
- Up to 24 2.5 inch SAS/SATA drives
- One dedicated and one shared 1 Gb Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) port.
The IBM Power System IC922 (9183-22X) server is built to delivers powerful computing, scaling efficiency, and storage capacity in a cost-optimized design to meet the evolving data challenges of the AI era.
The IC in IC922 stands for inference and cloud. The I can also stand for I/O.
The new IBM Power System IC922 (9183-22X) server is a powerful 2-socket server that offers 24, 32 or 40 fully activated cores and I/O configuration flexibility to help meet accelerated computing needs. The server features are designed for high-performance data analytics and high-performance computing workloads with up to six NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU accelerators.
The Power IC922 server also provides:
- High throughput and performance for high-value Linux workloads, such as inferencing data or storage rich workloads, or cloud
- Potentially low acquisition cost through system optimization such as utilizing industry standard memory and warranty
- Up to six NVIDIA T4 GPU accelerators
- Multiple I/O options in the system with the standard PCIe Riser, including:
- Two PCIe x16 Gen 3 FHFL slots (supports double-wide accelerators)
- Two PCIe x16 Gen 4 LP slots
- Two PCIe x8 Gen 3 FHFL slots (physically x16)
- Two PCIe x8 Gen 3 FHFL slots
- Two PCIe x16 Gen 3 LP slots
- Up to 24 2.5 inch SAS/SATA drives
- Optional Mellanox InfiniBand or high-performance Ethernet
- Two rear USB 3.0 ports and one front USB 3.0 port
- 19-inch rack-mount with 2U configuration
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
An inference server engineered to put your AI models to work
Engineered for AI inference, the IBM Power System IC922 provides the compute-intensive and low-latency infrastructure you need to unlock business insights from trained AI models. The POWER9-based Power IC922 provides advanced interconnects (PCIe Gen4, OpenCAPI) to support faster data throughput and decreased latency. Accelerated, the Power IC922 supports up to six NVIDIA® T4 Tensor Core GPU accelerators.