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© 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation

OpenPOWER Overview May 2015 Keith Brown Director, IBM Systems Technical Strategy & Product Security [email protected] http://openpowerfoundation.org/

mailto:[email protected]

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What is the OpenPOWER Ecosystem?

Cloud

Software

Operating

System / KVM

Standard Operating

Environment

(System Mgmt)

Existing

Open

Source

Software

Communities

Firmware

Hardware

New OSS

Community

OpenPOWER

Technology

OpenPOWER

Firmware

ISV community of 800+

All major Linux distros

Open sourced Power8

firmware stack

Resources for porting and

optimizing on OpenPOWERFoundation.org

A Fast Start for OpenPOWER!


• Collaborative solutions, standards, and reference designs available • Independent members solutions and systems • Sector growth in technical computing and cloud • Global growth with increasing depth in all layers • Broad adoption across hardware, software, and end users

The year

ahead


Fueling an Open Development Community

Critical workloads run on Linux on Power

Analytics & Research

• Compute intensive

• High memory bandwidth

• Floating point

• High I/O rates

• High quality of service

• Scalability

• Flexible infrastructure

• Large memory footprint

Business Applications

• Highly threaded

• Throughput oriented

• Scale out capable


Web, Java Apps and Infrastructure

• Handle peak workloads

• Scalability


• Resiliency and security

HPC applications for

Life Sciences

Database


Two super computers for Oak Ridge and Lawrence

Livermore Labs in 2017. Sequoia (LLNL)

2012 - 2017

Mira (ANL)

2012 - 2017 Titan (ORNL)

2012 - 2017

Current DOE Leadership Computers

IBM, Mellanox, and NVIDIA awarded

$325M U.S. Department of Energy’s Super Computer

bids

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

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University Participation

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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


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


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Back-up


Industry trends drive innovation beyond the chip

Processors

Semiconductor Technology

System stack innovations are required to drive Cost/Performance

Applications and Services

Firmware, Operating System

and Hypervisor

System Stack

Systems Management &

Cloud Deployment

Systems Acceleration &

HW/SW Optimization

Workload Acceleration

Services Delivery Model

Advanced Memory Tech

Network & I/O Accel

Use Cases

Microprocessors alone no longer drive sufficient Cost/Performance improvements

Processors

Semiconductor Technology

POWER8 Linux

OpenPOWER NEW


Membership Options

Membership Level

Annual Fee $ USD

FTEs Technical Steering Committee Board / Voting position

Platinum $100k 10 One seat per member not otherwise

represented Includes board position Includes TSC position

Gold $60k 3 May be on TSC if Work group lead

Gold members may elect one board representative per three gold

members

Silver $20k

$5k if <300 employees

0 May be on TSC if Work group lead

Sliver members may elect one board representative for all silver members

Associate & Academic

$0 0 May be on TSC if Work group lead

May be elected to one community observer, non-voting Board seat

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 agreement, Bylaws, and IP Rights Policy available for review

www.openpowerfoundation.org

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.


OpenPOWER Development Community


Engage in the OpenPOWER community

Technology and Software

Innovators

Innovators, Integrators,

and Partners End Users

Discuss areas of collaboration and synergy

in OpenPOWER.

Sign up for membership and join a work group.

Build technical and business relationships

Develop collaborative innovations

with compelling value

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Deep understanding of workload demands and

consumption preferences of end users

Team with innovators and end users to drive

requirements, engage in specific projects

Deliver collaborative innovations


Strategic imperatives and workload demands for performance and cost

optimization

Require open software and systems with choice and

flexibility

Engage directly on system design options

Deploy collaborative innovations



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

“The level of support behind the OpenPOWER Foundation leads me to believe that IBM has a real chance at ending Intel's server chip monopoly.” [IBM is the real threat to Intel’s server dominance, Motley Fool]

Join us!

… doubling the performance of its already powerful predecessor, Power7+.

The Power8 specs are mind boggling. [Microprocessor report]

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/openpower-

opening-the-stack-all-the-way-down/

Both the current results and future potential

are so promising that we are preparing to

build an OpenPOWER-based, Open Compute

platform. And it will run OpenStack services.

http://labs.runabove.com/power8/

IBM’s huge advantages in multithreading

and memory bandwidth favor Power8 when

running larger test suites that more closely

reflect real-world enterprise applications.

http://www.linleygroup.com/newsletters/newsletter_detail.php?num=5275

Data-centric supercomputers based on

POWER for Department of Energy, Oak

Ridge National Labs & Lawrence

Livermore to advance innovation and

discovery in science, engineering and

national defense in $325M deal

http://cloudtimes.org/2014/10/08/ibm-introduces-openpower-super-computing-for-big-data-analytics/

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/why-ibm-is-the-real-threat-to-intels-server-dominance-cm399810

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















http://labs.runabove.com/power8/

STG University Alliances

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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)

http://osuosl.org/

http://osuosl.org/



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



North Carolina State University (NCSU) OpenPOWER Center at Virtual Computing Lab

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

https://vcl.ncsu.edu/

https://vcl.apache.org/

https://vcl.apache.org/



IBM POWER Academic Initiative

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



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

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