Foundation Overview February 2014

OpenPOWER Overview

May 2015

Keith Brown Director, IBM Systems Technical Strategy & Product Security kabrown@us.ibm.com http://openpowerfoundation.org/

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

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

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 awarded $325M U.S. Department of Energy’s Super Computer bids Two super computers for Oak Ridge and Lawrence Current DOE Leadership Computers Titan (ORNL) Sequoia (LLNL) Mira (ANL) Livermore Labs in 2017. 2012 - 2017 2012 - 2017 2012 - 2017

5X – 10X Higher Application Performance versus Current Systems

>100 PF, 2 GB/core main memory, local NVRAM, Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand, IBM POWER CPUs, NVIDIA Tesla GPUs

7 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation Why should Universities join OpenPOWER Foundation? • Your one best source of information about OpenPOWER • Latest developments and technology • Information about applications enabled for OpenPOWER • Descriptions of current OpenPOWER research • Technical webinars • Discussion groups to ask questions and find collaborators • Access to resources • Pointers to system resources available to universities (OSU OSL, China Power Technology Open Lab, NCSU VCL and more on the way) • First to learn of new resources as they come available • http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/technical-resources/ • Find OpenPOWER Collaborators • ISVs and industry members • University Researchers • Free membership for Academic Members

.OpenPOWER Systems Labs –Oregon State University – Open Source Lab •http://osuosl.org/services/powerdev –Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP • link??? –Brno University of Technology –China Research Lab – SuperVessel –Coming soon •OpenPOWER on IBM’s SoftLayer Cloud infrastructure •High Performance Computing resources via another University Partner

.IBM POWER Academic Initiative: –Free Courseware and Content •AIX, IBM i and Linux on POWER •Some courses available to all, some courses require joining Academic Initiative first (also free) –Free Access to Power Systems Connection Center •Available to all Academic Initiative members for teaching and research purposes only –Entry level and experienced professional job boards •http://powersystemsjobs.com/ –http://www-304.ibm.com/ibm/university/academic/pub/page/power_systems

Microprocessors alone no longer drive sufficient Cost/Performance improvements

System Stack

Applications and Services

Systems Management & Processors Cloud Deployment Systems Acceleration & Semiconductor Technology HW/SW Optimization Firmware, Operating System and Hypervisor

Processors

Semiconductor Technology Use Cases

Workload Acceleration Services Delivery Model Advanced Memory Tech POWER8 Linux Network & I/O Accel NEW OpenPOWER

System stack innovations are required to drive Cost/Performance

Anyone may participate in OpenPOWER. Membership levels are designed for those that are investing to grow and enhance the OpenPOWER community and its proliferation within the industry.

. The OpenPOWER Foundation is a Not-for-profit entity with a Board of Directors and a Technical Steering Committee. • Membership levels provide either a default Board of Director position (Platinum) or an opportunity to be elected to the Board (Gold, Silver, and Assoc/Academic members). The Bylaws include additional governance detail. • Technical Steering Committee is formed from Work group Leads and Platinum members.

. Membership options include Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Associate / Academic memberships • Annual fee and dedicated full-time equivalent (FTEs) - verification of FTEs on honor system • Contributors, committers, Work group leads and project leads influence Technical Steering Committee • Associate / Academic level is not available to corporations

Membership Annual Fee FTEs Technical Steering Committee Board / Voting position Level $ USD One seat per member not otherwise Includes board position Platinum $100k 10 represented Includes TSC position Gold members may elect one board May be on TSC if representative per three gold Gold $60k 3 Work group lead members

$20k May be on TSC if Sliver members may elect one board Silver $5k if <300 0 employees Work group lead representative for all silver members Associate & $0 0 May be on TSC if May be elected to one community Academic Work group lead observer, non-voting Board seat

Membership agreement, Bylaws, and IP Rights Policy available for review www.openpowerfoundation.org

Engage in the OpenPOWER community

Technology and Software Innovators, Integrators, End Users

Innovators and Partners INTEREST

Strategic imperatives and Discuss areas of Deep understanding of workload demands for collaboration and synergy workload demands and performance and cost in OpenPOWER. consumption preferences optimization of end users ACTION Sign up for membership Require open software and and join a work group. Team with innovators and systems with choice and end users to drive flexibility Build technical and requirements, engage in business relationships specific projects Engage directly on system

design options

Develop Deliver Deploy collaborative innovations collaborative innovations collaborative innovations

with compelling value with compelling value with compelling value OUTCOME

14 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation Join us! “The level of support behind the OpenPOWER Foundation leads me to believe that IBM has a real chance at Both the current results and future potential ending Intel's server chip monopoly.” [IBM is the real threat to Intel’s server dominance, are so promising that we are preparing to Motley Fool] build an OpenPOWER-based, Open Compute platform. And it will run OpenStack services.

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/openpower- opening-the-stack-all-the-way-down/

"The new systems incorporate technologies from IBM and other providers that are part of OpenPower…which allow http://labs.runabove.com/power8/ you to achieve unprecedented computing performance.” [Cloud Times]

… doubling the performance of its already powerful predecessor, Power7+. The Power8 specs are mind boggling. [Microprocessor report]

IBM’s huge advantages in multithreading Data-centric supercomputers based on POWER for Department of Energy, Oak and memory bandwidth favor Power8 when Ridge National Labs & Lawrence running larger test suites that more closely Livermore to advance innovation and reflect real-world enterprise applications. discovery in science, engineering and

national defense in $325M deal http://www.linleygroup.com/newsletters/newsletter_detail.php?num=5275

Environment . POWER7+ big endian instances using LPARs or POWER8 big or little endian instances running on KVM and providing access via OpenStack's API and GUI interface.

Univ Focus - Two goals: . OSU is hosting machines to make them available to the ISV and Open Source community. . Using the systems to support the OpenPOWER software ecosystem – porting and testing key Open Source packages, and other related activities.

Users: ISV and Open Source community

url: http://osuosl.org/ or http://osuosl.org/services/powerdev

University contact: Lance Albertson (HW), Carlos Jensen (Research)

16 © 2014 IBM Corporation STG University Alliances SuperVessel: Cloud for Training, Research and Delopement based on POWER Technology Built by IBM Research-China and IBM China STG at the China Power Technology Open Lab

Open cloud platform based on POWER and OpenStack technology

Provides cloud services to universities, individual developers and POWER ecosystem partners for education, academic research and application development on POWER

Includes many advanced services such as Big Data services (Spark, Hadoop), Science Computing Environment, and Java/Python Application Development Environment

Free Chinese language courses

http://www.ptopenlab.com

Environment: . P7+ and P8 hardware to develop KVM support for Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) project.

Univ Focus: VCL enabled for KVM, Cloud in a Box

Users: The VCL project is freely available to support research and teaching needs of universities.

url: https://vcl.ncsu.edu/, https://vcl.apache.org/

University contact: Mladen Vouk, Vincent Freeh

Free Courses: .AIX, IBM i and Linux on POWER .Some courses available to all, some courses require joining Academic Initiative first (also free)

Free Access to Power Systems Connection Center .Available to all Academic Initiative members for teaching and research purposes only .Our Data Center houses 340 Power7 cores distributed over Power7 Blades - Power Linux Lc2 - Power7 770 – PureFlex Power7 Compute Nodes and 100TB storage and two tape libraries. There are over 300 LPARs (servers) running AIX, i5/OS, and Linux Suse Enterprise Server 11.3 and Red Hat 6.5 and approved Software in high-end IBM Data and Licensed IBM partner distributions.

Entry level and experienced professional job boards .http://powersystemsjobs.com/

http://www-304.ibm.com/ibm/university/academic/pub/page/power_systems

Academic OpenPOWER Foundation Members (mid-April)

Australia Interaction Asia Pacific China Shanghai Jiao Tong University China Tsinghua University Germany Julich Supercomputer Germany Max Planck Society Greece Institute of Communication and Computre Systems (ICCS) Greece University of Patras India Coimbatore Institute of Technology India IIT Bangalore India IIT Bombay India IIT Roorkee India Symbiosis Institute (SICSR) India University of Hyderabad Italy Cineca Korea POSTECH Korea Seoul National Universtiy UK Hartree Centre STFC US Oak Ridge National Lab US Oregon State University (OSU) US Rice University US Sandia National Labs US University of Arkansas US University of Central Florida US University of Illinois (UIUC) US University of Oregon 20 © 2014 IBM Corporation STG University Alliances

Why should Universities join OpenPOWER Foundation? • Your one best source of information about OpenPOWER • Latest developments and technology • Information about applications enabled for OpenPOWER • Descriptions of current OpenPOWER research • Technical webinars • Discussion groups to ask questions and find collaborators • Access to resources • Pointers to system resources available to universities (OSU OSL, China Power Technology Open Lab, NCSU VCL and more on the way) • First to learn of new resources as they come available • http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/technical-resources/ • Find OpenPOWER Collaborators • ISVs and industry members • University Researchers • Free membership for Academic Members