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Foundation Overview February 2014 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 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 6 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation University Participation 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 8 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation IBM POWER Academic Support .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 9 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation Back-up © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation Industry trends drive innovation beyond the chip 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 11 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation Membership Options 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 12 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation OpenPOWER Development Community 13 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation 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 15 © 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation STG University Alliances Oregon State University (OSU) OpenPOWER Center at Open Source Lab 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 17 © 2014 IBM Corporation STG University Alliances North Carolina State University
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