[Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 10:57 -0500, Franck Barillaud wrote:
> nvidia-xconfig is part of the 375 driver package but not in the 361.... Why ?

I believe they initially didn't support graphics on POWER, only
compute.

Cheers,
Ben.

> 
> Regards,
> Franck Barillaud
> STSM, CTO ISV Power Cloud Infrastructure
> Master Inventor
> Ext Phone: (512) 286-5242    Tie Line: 363-5242
> e-mail: fbarilla at us.ibm.com
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> From:        Frank Novak/Watson/IBM
> To:        Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM at IBMUS
> Cc:        linuxppc-users at lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>, Bill Buros <wburos at us.ibm.com>
> Date:        07/13/2017 10:38 AM
> Subject:        Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power
> 
> 
> If I go here: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
> i see choices for RHEL and Ubuntu under ppc64le
> 
> matrix here of what's currently supported: http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#system-requirements
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank  
> 
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> From:        Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM
> To:        Frank Novak/Watson/IBM at IBMUS
> Cc:        linuxppc-users at lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>, Bill Buros <wburos at us.ibm.com>
> Date:        07/13/2017 11:29 AM
> Subject:        Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power
> 
> 
> Frank,
> 
> On the Nvidia download web site, I only see a 'Linux POWER8 RHEL', no Ubuntu version
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Franck Barillaud
> STSM, CTO ISV Power Cloud Infrastructure
> Master Inventor
> Ext Phone: (512) 286-5242    Tie Line: 363-5242
> e-mail: fbarilla at us.ibm.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From:        Frank Novak/Watson/IBM
> To:        Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM at IBMUS
> Cc:        linuxppc-users at lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>, Bill Buros <wburos at us.ibm.com>
> Date:        07/13/2017 08:35 AM
> Subject:        Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power
> 
> 
> Ok..
> 
> Do you have the full driver from Nvidia installed? 
> This is part of the NVidia driver package.. or at least has been...
> 
> FWIW Googling shows this had been problem in past with not getting driver from Nvidia....
> "
> After trying every combination of nvidia packages around, I gave up and downloaded the driver from NVidia directly.
> 
> One command, "./NVIDIA-Linux....run", and I was all set. 
> "
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank  
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Frank Novak  ( 诺帆 nuò、fān )
> STSM, SCEM Open Hypervisor
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> US:  fnovak at us.ibm.com  ;  Notes:   Frank Novak/Watson/IBM @IBMUS
> cell : 919-671-7966
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
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> From:        Franck Barillaud/Austin/IBM
> To:        "Frank Novak" <fnovak at us.ibm.com>
> Cc:        linuxppc-users at lists.ozlabs.org, "Linuxppc-users"<linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>, Bill Buros <wburos at us.ibm.com>
> Date:        07/13/2017 09:22 AM
> Subject:        Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power
> 
> 
> Frank,
> 
> MapD uses an Xorg based rendering engine to display data in a Web browser. Without this functionality MapD is missing two important features (Scatter and PointMap display) 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Franck Barillaud
> STSM, CTO ISV Power Cloud Infrastructure
> Master Inventor
> Ext Phone: (512) 286-5242    Tie Line: 363-5242
> e-mail: fbarilla at us.ibm.com
> 
> 
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> From:        "Frank Novak" <fnovak at us.ibm.com>
> To:        Bill Buros <wburos at us.ibm.com>
> Cc:        linuxppc-users at lists.ozlabs.org
> Date:        07/12/2017 07:42 PM
> Subject:        Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power
> Sent by:        "Linuxppc-users" <linuxppc-users-bounces+fbarilla=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>
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> 
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> "Linuxppc-users" <linuxppc-users-bounces+fnovak=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org> wrote on 07/12/2017 07:00:01 PM:
> 
> > From: Bill Buros <wburos at us.ibm.com>
> > To: linuxppc-users at lists.ozlabs.org
> > Date: 07/12/2017 07:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Linuxppc-users] MapD on Power
> > Sent by: "Linuxppc-users" <linuxppc-users-bounces
> > +fnovak=us.ibm.com at lists.ozlabs.org>
> > 
> > We'll need to poke around for some answers...
> > 
> > On 7/11/17 4:30 PM, Franck Barillaud wrote:
> > Part of the MapD configuration there is a step that builds the /etc/
> > X11/xorg.conf  file:
> > 
> > sudo nvidia-xconfig --use-display-device=none --enable-all-gpus --
> > preserve-busid 
> > 
> > On Power, the nvidia-xconfig command is not found ?  We have all the
> > nvidia/CUDA drivers/libs installed. Where is the 'nvidia-xconfig' 
> > supposed to come from ?
> color me confused, but what does x11 and xconfig have to do w/ using GPUs for things like MapD?
> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Franck Barillaud
> > STSM, CTO ISV Power Cloud Infrastructure
> > Master Inventor
> > Ext Phone: (512) 286-5242    Tie Line: 363-5242
> > e-mail: fbarilla at us.ibm.com
> > 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank 
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