installing TensorFlow on the IBM power8

问题:

I have access to a large IBM Power8 machine, and would like to install TensorFlow on it. Naturally, I tried the quick pip install, but it failed:

sudo pip install https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/cpu/tensorflow-0.6.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl
tensorflow-0.6.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.
Storing debug log for failure in /home/pv/.pip/pip.log

Unfortunately, pip.log cotains little useful info.

/usr/bin/pip run on Sat Feb  6 17:29:34 2016
tensorflow-0.6.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 283, in run
    InstallRequirement.from_line(name, None))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 168, in from_line
    raise UnsupportedWheel("%s is not a supported wheel on this platform." % wheel.filename)
UnsupportedWheel: tensorflow-0.6.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

Next thing I tried was to build TensorFlow from source. To no avail, all my attempts ended with some cannot execute binary file: Exec format error message, e.g.:

/usr/local/bin/bazel: line 86: /usr/local/lib/bazel/bin/bazel-real: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

So then I tried to compile Bazel from source, which also resulted in a similar hard error.

me@machine:~/bazel-0.1.5$ ./compile.sh
INFO: You can skip this first step by providing a path to the bazel binary as second argument:
INFO:    ./compile.sh compile /path/to/bazel