HARDWARE INNOVATION REVEAL

OpenPOWER Foundation Summit 2016

Revolutionize the Datacenter

The Alpha Data ADM-PCIE-8K5, based on the Xilinx UltraSCALE

KU115 FPGA, brings new capabilities for application acceleration in

POWER8/9 using CAPI interfaces. The board is designed to be server

friendly for large scale datacenter deployment in a low-power, passively

cooled, low-profile PCIe card format.

OpenPOWER IBM S882LC with Asetek Rack-

CDUTM Direct to Chip Liquid Cooling. Overclock-

ing for the Fastest OpenPOWER Servers

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Brocade G620 Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch (32Gbps)

Provides high scalability in an ultradense, 1U, 64-

port switch to support high-density server virtualiza-

tion, cloud architectures, and flash-based storage en-

vironments.

BittWare’s XUSP3S is a 3/4-length PCIe x8 card based on the

Xilinx Virtex or Kintex UltraScale FPGA. The board offers

flexible memory configurations supporting up to 64 GBytes of

memory, sophisticated clocking and timing options, and four

front panel QSFP cages, each supporting up to 100 Gbps (4×25)

– including 100GbE.

Brocade VDX6740 Ethernet Fabric switch (10/40Gbps)

Delivers high performance, reduces congestion with 10/40

Gigabit Ethernet ports, low latency, 24 MB deep buffers

and Brocade VCS Technology

Brocade ICX7750 Ethernet switch (1/10/40 Gbps)

Provides modular design with expansion slots for

choice of 1/10/40 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks, offering

flexible “pay as you grow” scalability Switch

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Brocade 6510 Gen 5 Fibre Channel switch (16 Gbps)

Enables fast, easy, cost-effective storage networking scal-

ing to 48 ports support high-density server virtualization,

cloud architectures, and flash-based storage environments.

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Since 2002, E4 Computer Engineering designs and manufactures hardware solutions

for HPC and Industrial environments. The E4 OP205 is a 2U 2-socket system built

on the latest IBM's POWER8 technology and optimized to deliver high performance,

reliability, scalability, and manageability to run intensive workloads for a number of

applications (3D rendering, HPC, Oil&Gas…..)

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IBM prototype CAPI Flash Adapter combines a Xilinx FPGA

with up to 2TB of Samsung NVMe flash on a single CAPI-

enabled adapter that supports the same open-source software

interfaces as the larger "IBM Data Engine for NoSQL" allowing

fast application exploitation in a smaller, in-server form-factor.

IBM prototype designed for accelerated, in-memory computing de-

livering non-linear performance gains to servers by extending cache-

out curve with 16GB HMC memory, providing cache-level band-

width and FPGA-optimized processing. CAPI support allows the

HSA standard to quickly be adopted in server environments.

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The Edico Genome DRAGEN is the world’s first processor designed for

the ultra-rapid analysis of NGS data. The processor is integrated on a

PCIe card and available in a pre-configured Power8 server, enabling

seamless integration into bioinformatics workflows. DRAGEN is able to

analyze a whole human genome in under 26 minutes, a task that takes

traditional servers over 30 hours to complete.

IBM Memory System Innovation FPGA Card

Memory Technology Innovation card enabling

in-system experimentation with new near-memory

acceleration and prototype benchmarking.

IBM 2U/2S Power8 Prototype. It supports up to

512GB DDR4 memory, 2 NVIDIA K80 or up to 2

Alpha-Data KU3 CAPI adapters and 12x LFF/SFF

hot swap drive bays.

IBM 1U/2S Power8 Prototype It supports up 512GB

DDR4 memory, 1 NVIDIA K80 or up to 2 Alpha-

Data KU3 CAPI adapters and 4x LFF/SFF hot swap

bays.

The IBM S812LC is a 1-socket 2U system, equipped with up to 10 cores,

1TB of memory, 115GB/sec memory bandwidth, and up to 14 disk drives.

The S812LC is a Linux system optimized for workloads that are memory

and storage rich, such as Spark and Hadoop to provide immediate insights

with incredible efficiency.

IDT's 19 inch 1U rack mountable 0.75 Tbps Top of Rack Switch with 38x20

Gbps ports with 100ns latency features IDT’s RapidIO switching technology.

The chip technology used in this ToR switch appliance is used in 100% of 4G

base station deployments today. Connectivity to OpenPower Servers is done

through the RapidIO to PCIe NIC card. The ToR Switch scales up to 4.8 Tbps in

2U with 50 Gbps port Switch

Magma ExpressBox 3600-P provides flexibility for High Perfor-

mance Computing (HPC) applications by partitioning the PCIe

expansion switching into four independent domains that can be

connected to one, two, three, or four independent hosts. All PCIe

resources share one common chassis for N+1 redundant power

and cooling to minimize cost. Expansion

Inventec’s First OpenPOWER project targets to provide high-performance, scalability and flexibility for large Data Center deploy-

ments and service applications. Using IBM Centaur Memory buffer and

PLX PEX8725 switch supported 1 IBM P8NVL CPU, 16 DDR4 DIMMs and 2 nVIDIA P100 SXM2 GPUs. Through NVLINK connects

CPU and GPUs, and GPUs to bring high computing efficiency.

Mark III Systems will commercialize the first OpenPOWER-enabled system built to

the Open Compute Project design specification, which will follow the Barreleye

server design created by Rackspace, Broadcom, IBM, Ingrasys, Mellanox, Micron,

and Samsung. As a long-time IBM Premier Partner, Mark III will also offer value-

added services and expertise to clients to help them plan for, implement, and main-

tain Barreleye within the context of their existing and future technology strategies. System

INSPUR Allure - 1S or 2S 4U POWER8

4U2S Rack Server Optimized for New Data Center and

Big Data Application: Supports 2 IBM OpenPOWER Pro-

cessors, 64 DDR3—2TB, 12 PCIE Gen3 System

The IBM 2-socket 2U Power Systems S822LC for commercial computing and high

performance computing come similarly configured with up to 20 cores, 1TB of memory

and 230GB/sec memory bandwidth. The S822LC for high performance computing also

comes with two integrated NVIDIA® Tesla® K80 GPU accelerators. The two S822LC

variants will offer over 2X performance per core, 40% better price performance and

more than 2X memory bandwidth compared to x86-based E5-2699 V3 machines. System

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Prototype of IBM’s second OpenPOWER

high performance computing server with NVLink

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Mellanox ConnectX®-4 Single/Dual-Port Adapter—Supporting 100Gb/s with CAPI.

ConnectX-4 adapter cards with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI), supporting EDR

100Gb/s InfiniBand and 100Gb/s Ethernet connectivity, provide the highest perfor-

mance and most flexible solution for high-performance, Web 2.0, Cloud, data analyt-

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Microsemi® Adaptec® Series 8 SAS/SATA RAID Adapter—OPIO HCL,

lowest power 12Gbps RAID adapter in a low-profile MD2 form factor

with up to 16 internal/external ports. Provides full hardware data protec-

tion and RAID features delivering maximum throughput and IOPS for

SSD or hybrid SSD/HDD systems (8885 shown). Optional AFM-700

flash-based module provides enable instant battery-free cache protection.

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NEC ExpEther I/O Expansion Unit: x8 PCIe3.0, Two x16 slots, Quad 40Gb

QSFP+

This I/O expansion unit can support up to four full-height/full-length PCIe

cards or two double-wide GPGPUs and AUX power connectors. Customer

can add a large number of PCIe cards to a small server or workstation beyond

its capability.

NEC ExpEther HBA : x8 PCIe3.0, Dual 40Gb QSFP+

ExpEther is a technology that can extend the PCI Express

beyond the confines of a computer chassis via Ethernet

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SB7800 - Switch-IB™ 2 Managed EDR Switch.

36-port Non-blocking Managed EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Smart Switch

Mellanox provides the world’s first smart switch, enabling in-network computing

through the Co-Design and “SHArP” technology. SB7800 has the highest fabric per-

formance available in the market with up to 7Tb/s of non-blocking bandwidth with

90ns port-to-port latency. Switch

Microsemi® Adaptec® HBA 1000 Host Bus Adapter—Most resil-

ient, efficient, and easy to use SAS/SATA low-profile MD2 form

factor HBA. Up to 60% lower power consumption than other

HBAs, this is the first of Microsemi’s Smart Storage Solutions

and offers 5 skus with up to 16 native ports (8i8e shown). Card

Microsemi® Adaptec® Series 7 SAS/SATA RAID Adapter -

OPIO HCL, lowest power 24port RAID adapter for 6Gbps

systems (72405 shown). For 24 ports, card is a half length,

full height form factor. Card

NEC ExpEther I/O Expansion Unit: x8 PCIe3.0, Four x16 slots, Quad 40Gb

QSFP+

This I/O expansion unit can support up to four full-height/full-length PCIe

cards or two double-wide GPGPUs and AUX power connectors. Customer

can add a large number of PCIe cards to a small server or workstation beyond

its capability.

Expansion

Mellanox SN2700 Spectrum Ethernet Switch

The SN2700 switch provides the most predictable, highest density 100GbE

switching platform for the growing demands of today’s OpenPOWER data

centers. Spectrum 32-port 100GbE Switch is also Open Ethernet Platform

Penguin Magna 1015, designed for OCP Open Rack infrastructure

combined with an OpenPOWER Architecture, targets virtualization

workloads in Hyperscale data center. Magna 1015 provides the

memory capacity and memory bandwidth to support high virtual ma-

chine density. System

Penguin Magna 2001, powered by a single OpenPOWER Power8 gen-

eration CPU, is targeted at software development and testing on Open-

POWER architecture. Magna 2001 supports rich I/O options, including

CAPI, to support variety of I/O driven workloads.

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The OSS High Density Compute Accelerator (HDCA) is a first-of-its-

kind GPU engine that accommodates up to sixteen GPUs in a 3U

chassis and cables to one to four servers through PCIe x16 Gen3 con-

nections. The HDCA adds thousands of compute cores and hundreds

of Tflops of compute power to systems. Expansion

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The NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 is the world’s most advanced datacenter

accelerator ever built, a brand new GPU architecture to deliver the

world’s fastest compute node. Powered by four ground-breaking tech-

nologies with discontinuous jumps in performance, Tesla P100 enables

lightning-fast nodes to deliver these important workloads. Accelerator

The OSS Flash Storage Array (FSA) is a high-density flash storage

appliance that accommodates up to thirty-two flash cards in a 3U

chassis and cables to one to four servers through PCIe x16 Gen3 con-

nections. The FSA adds millions of IOPS to systems for memory-

intensive applications in the HPC market. Expansion

Penguin Magna 2002, powered by two OpenPOWER Power8 genera-

tion processors, is optimized for Accelerated Computing using NVID-

IA Tesla family of GPUs and coprocessors. Magna 2002 supports

NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPUs for Technical Computing and NVIDIA Tes-

la M40 for Machine Learning applications. System

The NL2200 is the first jointly developed product by Beijing Neu

Cloud Oriental System Technology Co., Ltd. and partners from

OpenPOWER Foundation. It can support 16/20/24 cores CPU, up

to 1TB memory, 2 HDDs, 2 GPUs, 100GB IB adapter & PCIe

SSD with NCO self-developed BMC.”

QLOGIC QLE2672 ‐ dual port 16G FC adapter:

The QLogic 2672 Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel Adapters boast in-

dustry-leading native Fibre Channel performance—achieving dual-

port, line-rate, 16Gbps Fibre Channel throughput—at extremely low

CPU utilization with full hardware offloads. Card

Semptian NSA-120 (Network&Service Accelerator) is a half-

length, low profile, PCI Express® x8 Gen3 Card，Based on

Innovative and powerful Xilinx UltraScale™ FPGA Technology.

It supports IBM Power8 and CAPI compliant based on a FPGA

XCKU060. It's your good choice for Data Center accelerating. Card

RTDS Technologies Inc. is using a 10 core OpenPOWER P8

processor to develop a new platform for simulating electromag-

netic transients in electrical utility power systems in real-time.

The simulation platform provides a real-time working model of

the power system to which actual physical power-system controls

may be connected for testing before installation. Board

Rackspace partnered with Broadcom, IBM, Ingrasys, Mel-

lanox, Micron, and Samsung to create “Barreleye” an Open-

POWER / Open Compute Platform designed for Cloud

2.0. The first Barreleye servers came online in 3Q 2015. With our first data

center shipment in process, we look forward to bringing customers aboard

within the next few months. Server

QLOGIC QLE2692 - dual port Enhanced Gen 5 (16G) FC adapter. The

QLogic® 2692 Series of Enhanced Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel (FC)

Adapter is designed for enterprise data centers that require the ultimate

in FC performance, power efficiency, reliability, and investment protec-

tion for demanding virtualized and private cloud environments. Card

QLOGIC QLE2742 - dual port Gen 6 (32G) FC adapter:

The QLogic® 2742 Gen 6 (32Gb) Fibre Channel (FC) Adapters is de-

signed to accelerate mission-critical enterprise applications, build a

highly resilient infrastructure and improve operational efficiency.

QLogic Gen 6 FC technology provides the industry’s first 32Gbps Card

QLOGIC QLE2564L - low-profile, quad port 8G FC adapter:

The QLogic 2564L 8Gb Adapters are industry’s first low profile quad port 8G

FC adapters. These adapters not only meet the needs of today’s demanding data

center requirements by providing power and virtualization optimization. These

adapters are ideal for use in low-profile servers in today’s bandwidth hungry,

high density environments. Card

QLE2562 - dual port 8G FC adapter:

The QLogic 2562 8Gb Adapters are a part of QLogic’s industry-leading

Fibre Channel technology portfolio. The adapters meet the needs of to-

day’s demanding data center requirements by providing power and vir-

tualization optimization. Card

NSA-120B: Semptian NSA-120 (Network&Service Accelerator)

is a half-length, low profile, PCI Express® x8 Gen3 Card，

Based on Innovative and powerful Xilinx UltraScale™ FPGA

Technology. It supports IBM Power8 and CAPI compliant based

on a FPGA XCKU115. It's your good choice for Data Center

accelerating. Card

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Tyan GT75-BP012 platform is a 1U POWER8-based server solu-

tion that reveals the spirit of the OpenPOWER Foundation. the

using the ppc64 architecture in the 1U single-socket system, the

TYAN GT75-BP012 provides huge memory footprint as well as

outstanding performance for HPC and server virtualization appli-

cations

The TYAN TN71-BP012 is based on the POWER8 architecture and is

designed for virtual machine and high-performance data analytics appli-

cation. With tremendous memory capacity and high-end computing

performance, the OpenPOWER standards-based system provides cus-

tomers a high price-performance ratio solution to build their customized

IT infrastructure.

ITL CP8128 on-board server is a kind of server which is designed and

developed independently based on IBM open OpenPOWER chip ar-

chitecture. ITL server supports Redhat operating system and virtual

technology. The structure of server uses module design and can satisfy

customer's customized demand of on-board server.

Saba - 2U High-Performance Data Analytics Engine.

StackVelocity has designed a high-performance platform, Saba, featuring OpenPOW-

ER™ POWER8™ and CAPI. Saba boasts leadership performance, enhances cloud

efficiency and enables open innovation on POWER. An extremely smart platform with

high number-crunching capabilities, Saba is perfect for big data analytics and hyper

performance computing applications.

Offering dual POWER8 processors in an Open Compute form factor, Barreleye

aims to transform the data center of tomorrow. With large memory footprint

and flexible I/O options, including CAPI enabled slots, it is designed to handle

the toughest cloud application. StackVelocity is planning to integrate and dis-

tribute this server as part of its cloud infrastructure services business unit.

Suzhou PowerCore CP1

POWER chip for the China market. Customized for

Suzhou PowerCore, Zoom Netcom is using the CP1

in their RedPOWER servers.

Wistron prototype Dark King – 4 Sockets POWER8 Serv-

er with 128 DIMMs—Dark King is a conceptual 4U 4-

socket system built on POWER8 server with 128 DIMMs

and CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface) to

run intensive workloads for large scale data analysis.

ITL I1016 is a single-threaded server server ITL launched a

meet the needs of SMEs and design. It can be used as data and

application server that supports disk arrays, SAS, SCSI, RAID,

and other functions.

Redpower C210 is the world's first OpenPOWER technology based 2-socket serv-

er, which have been GA released in October 2015. By selecting different pro-

cessing capacity, memory capacity and ability to meet the various application

requirements such as IO, database, virtual memory, calculation oriented applica-

tion. In dealing with similar work load, C210 server can achieve more excellent

throughput with higher economic benefits. System

Redpower P210 is the latest NVDIA NVLink technology based high-

performance GPU Server, using OpenPOWER8+ CPU, support 4 NVLink

GPU, 1T Memory Capacity. In dealing with similar work load, C210 and

C220 server can achieve more excellent throughput with higher economic

benefits. System

Wistron Polaris – 2 Sockets POWER8 Server with Nvidia

GPUs—Polaris is a ready-to-ship 2U 2-socket system built

on POWER8 with CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor

Interface) to deliver high performance, reliability, scalabil-

ity in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. System

Wistron Polaris Plus - 2 Sockets POWER8 w/NVlink

Server, Up to four NVIDIA Pascal GPU accelerators.

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