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WHEN PERFORMANCE MATTERS

FAST FORWARD EVOLUTION

Fabrizio MaguglianiStrategic Planning and Business Development

AGENDA•E4 Computer Engineering

• Innovation

•Fast Forward Evolution

•Where from now?

•Feel free to drop by3

THE COMPANY

Since 2002, E4 Computer Engineering has been innovating and actively encouraging theadoption of new computing and storage technologies. Because new ideas are soimportant, we invest heavily in research and hence in our future. Thanks to ourcomprehensive range of hardware, software and services, we are able to offer ourcustomers complete solutions for their most demanding workloads on HPC, Big Data,AI, Deep Learning, Data Analytics, Cognitive Computing and for any challenging Storageand Computing requirements.

E4. WHEN PERFORMANCE MATTERS.

OUR CORE VALUES

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2005First Infiniband Cluster

2009First GPU Cluster

2012First ARM+GPU server

2013First ARM Cluster deployment

2017 (TBA)First OpenPOWER PetaFLOPS Cluster

COMPANY MILESTONES2016

First OpenPOWER server

INNOVATION

• Serial hunting for new technologies

• Finding new applications for existing technologies

• Applying new technologies to old applications

• Test, validate and deploy

• Listen (FOR REAL) to customers and prospects

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO US?

FAST FORWARD EVOLUTION

x86 is current technology

POWER is current technology

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OpenPOWER is INNOVATIONOpenPOWER is OPENIt’s innovative yetproduction-oriented

OpenPOWER

is the most significant ‘agent provocateur’ in a stagnant world!

E4 is and will continue to be HW agnostic

However, our trust in building our next-gen solutions based on OpenPOWER is getting stronger by the day

WHY?BECAUSE….

OpenPOWER has all the needed technical features to behave well

It means innovation in a stagnant world

The market is looking for something different and better than x86

AND, LAST BUT NOT LEAST,

It’s cool10

FAST FORWARD EVOLUTION

• THE community is engaged and actively developing the ecosystem

• PRODUCTS are available on the market (and the market shows interest..)• Believe it or not, E4 already built 2 servers – check at our booth

• TECHNOLOGY consumptions are shifting (hyperscale datacenters, Software Defined Everything)

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WHERE FROM NOW?

THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME TO GO FULL STEAM AHEAD

• WE now need ISVs’ codes/applications «ready to go» for OpenPOWER™

• #1: CFD, FEA/FEM, CEM, MOD

• #2: Oil&Gas

• #3: Predictive Engineering Analitycs

• #4: Translational Medicine

• #5:

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WHAT’S MISSING?

• Our booth is made for talking

• Feel free to drop by, we LOVE hearing from you

• If you are involved in OpenPOWER, we are the people to see!

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FEEL FREE TO DROP BY

CONTACTS

E4 COMPUTER ENGINEERING SPAVia Martiri della Libertà, 66,

42019 Scandiano (RE) - Italy

Tel. +39 0522 991811

EMAIL CONTACTSinfo@e4company.comsupport@e4company.comsales@e4company.com

URLwww.e4company.com

Cosimo Gianfreda (CTO) cosimo.gianfreda@e4company.com

Fabrizio Magugliani (SP&BD)fabrizio.magugliani@e4company.com

THANK YOU