January 2016 Newsletter - OpenPOWER

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 Call for Solutions Members if you plan to announce or reveal a new solution please click on the link above

SuperComputing 2015 What a phenomenal SC15 in Austin November. For those members not familiar with this trade event it is king of High Performance Computing.

NEWSLETTER UPDATES Submit Stories and News for the next newsletter

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Leadership

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Over 50% of our membership works in or has solutions for HPC. The OpenPOWER Foundation took over the floor having 46 members attending with most members demonstrating OpenPOWER solutions to a High Performance Computing Audience. We turned the show floor OpenPOWER Blue.

The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as an open technical membership organization that will enable data centers to rethink their approach to technology. Member companies are enabled to customize POWER CPU processors and system platforms for optimization and innovation for their business needs. Video

OpenPOWER Summit April 5-7, 2016 With over 170+ members the OpenPOWER Summit is the place to be. Once again we will be joining the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center April 5-7.

The call for Speakers, Exhibitors and Posters have recently gone out.

Clients, Prospective Clients, Academics, Press, Analysts and fellow members will in attendance.

Learn about everything Summit by Clicking here.

Members there is a great solution for a pre-built booth. Confirm your space today.

Did you go to the 2015 OpenPOWER INDIA Summit? If not you can download the presentations. Click Here

http://openpowerfoundation.org/

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New Members OpenPOWER continues to grow. We now have a 175 members. 32 Total (24 Silver, Academic or Assoc in since September. Please welcome our new members. Reach out and find new ways to work together.

Arrow Electronics

NIT Warangal

Bittware, Inc

Raptor Engineering

Carnegie Mellon

Romeo HPC Center

Centre for Modelling & Sim

SanDisk

Ciara Technologies

SASTRA University

CSPi (Myricom)

SDTL - Shandong Intelligent Data Technique Co

Dalian University of Technology

All employees of members can register and find workgroups and committees through the Member Login at the top right of every page by using their company e-mail.

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Current Members List

National University of Singapore

Edico Genome Corp. ICM University of Warsaw Microsemi Corp Nanyang Technological Univ

NIT Karnataka

Solarflare Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station University of Florida University of TX TACC

How can I join?

New Solutions “We want our systems open, all the way down. This is a big step in that direction.” Aaron Sullivan Rackspace

Rackspace, OpenPOWER & Open Compute: Full Speed Ahead with Barreleye:

By Aaron Sullivan, Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer, Rackspace In an open community, with great partners, it’s amazing how fast things get done.

At the end of 2014, Rackspace announced its affiliation with OpenPOWER. At that time, we shared our intention to build an OpenPOWER server that cut across four major open source community initiatives (OpenStack, Open Compute, OpenPOWER, and, of course, Linux).

This past spring, at the Open Compute and OpenPOWER annual summits, Rackspace offered up our vision for a more powerful cloud, and shared our “Barreleye” server concept design. (We chose to name it after the barreleye fish because as you can see from the photo above, the fish has a transparent head. Get it? It’s open!)

Since then, we’ve worked closely with our partners Avago, IBM, Mellanox, PMC, Samsung to make that concept a reality. The first Barreleye servers came online in July, in China. In August, we shipped engineering

samples to our San Antonio lab and to our development partners.

Barreleye was demonstrated in its first public forum during a Rackspacehosted Open Compute engineering workshop. Read the whole story here

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Leadership Corner OpenPOWER Foundation Names New Board Leadership to Propel POWER Architecture

The OpenPOWER Foundation today announced the election of John Zannos, Canonical, Chair, and Calista Redmond, IBM, President of the OpenPOWER Foundation Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2016. Zannos and Redmond bring deep knowledge of the open technology development community and intimate familiarity with the Foundation’s core mission, with both playing key roles within the Foundation since 2014. The new leadership will continue to guide the proliferation of OpenPOWER-based technology solutions built on IBM’s POWER architecture in today’s datacenters.

Former Chair, Gordon MacKean of Google, and President, Brad McCredie of IBM, will remain close advisors to the OpenPOWER Foundation, serving as non-voting Board Advisors to provide technical and strategic roadmap guidance as appropriate.

Continuing the Datacenter Revolution Blog By John Zannos and Calista Redmond can be read here

See the full press release.

Tackle system bottlenecks through collaboration on memory bandwidth, acceleration, and interconnect advances. Grow workloads and software community optimizing on OpenPOWER.

Technical Steering Committee The TSC has 3 current items up for comments. The commenting period closes Jan. 10, 2016. Please make sure that your comments are in for review.

2016 OPF Priorities

ISA Profile IODA2 Specification

Further OpenPOWER’s validation through adoption conveyed via member and end user testimonials, benchmarking, and industry Influencer reports.

CAIA Specification


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Currently there are 11 approved workgroups. If you have yet to share your

Academia Discussion ******* CALL FOR PAPERS *********

experience and knowledge we ask that you

International Workshop on OpenPOWER for HPC

find a workgroup that peeks your interest

(IWOPH'16)

and one where you fell you can most help the foundation. Join today by logging in

June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany

using your company e-mail or registration

Papers submissions due by April 3, 2016

e-mail. Member Login

******* CALL FOR PAPERS ********* 25G IO Interoperability Mode WG

Workshop Organizers:

Accelerator WG

Prof. Dirk Pleiter, Julich & Jack Wells, Oak Ridge

Application Software Compliance Hardware Architecture

This workshop will take place within the ISC High

Integrated Solutions WG

Performance conference 2016. It is intended to pro-

IO Work Group (OPIO WG)

vide a venue for the broader HPC community to

Memory WG

Further understand OpenPOWER technologies and

Open Server Development Platform

discuss how they can be harnessed for HPC.

System Software

Full Details can be found here.

FSI (Full Service Interface) WG

Marketing Committee The OpenPOWER Foundation is Revolutionizing the Datacenter. We ask that if you have a Marketing or Sales role that you join us each month for the Marketing Committee meeting. To receive meeting notices and updates you must join the Marketing Committee. You can do this by visiting the Member Login at the top right of every page of the OpenPOWER Foundation website. Currently the Marketing Committee is reviewing multiple RFPs to be the agency for OPF. Bring your experience to the team and help us select the right agency. The Marketing Committee is also currently asking for each member to provide insight

into their OPF based solutions. These solutions descriptions will be placed on the OPF website and in the new

OPF in the News / Events Press Contact In the Wheelhouse: Evolution of OpenPOWER Continuing the Datacenter Revolution OpenPOWER Foundation Names New Board Leadership to Propel POWER Architecture OpenPOWER: The Rebel Alliance of the Industry Workshop Recap: OpenPOWER Personalized Medicine Working Group

Developer Resource Ecosystem. If you haven’t seen our new Developer Ecosystem we urge you to do so. And if you are interested in adding your developer resources please send an e-mail to Sam Ponedal

Video: What Does “Open” Mean to You? Video: IBM and OpenPOWER Partner with Oak Ridge National Labs to Solve World’s Toughest Challenges
