OpenPOWER Overview May 2015 Keith Brown Director, IBM Systems Technical Strategy & Product Security
[email protected] http://openpowerfoundation.org/ © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation What is the OpenPOWER Ecosystem? Cloud Software Existing ISV community of 800+ Standard Operating Open Environment Source All major Linux distros (System Mgmt) Software Communities Operating Open sourced Power8 System / KVM firmware stack New OSS Firmware OpenPOWER Resources for porting and Firmware Community optimizing on Hardware OpenPOWER OpenPOWERFoundation.org Technology 2 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation A Fast Start for OpenPOWER! The year • Collaborative solutions, standards, and reference designs available • Independent members solutions and systems ahead • Sector growth in technical computing and cloud • Global growth with increasing depth in all layers • Broad adoption across hardware, software, and end users 3 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation Fueling an Open Development Community 4 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation Critical workloads run on Linux on Power Web, Java Apps and Infrastructure Analytics & Research HPC applications for Life Sciences • Highly threaded • Compute intensive • Throughput oriented • High memory bandwidth • Scale out capable • Floating point • High quality of service • High I/O rates Business Applications Database • High quality of service • Handle peak workloads • Scalability • Scalability • Flexible infrastructure • High quality of service • Large memory footprint • Resiliency and security 5 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation IBM, Mellanox, and NVIDIA