when performance matters - openpower foundation...oct 15, 2016 · adoption of new computing and...
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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
2002 2020
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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 [email protected]@[email protected]
URLwww.e4company.com
Cosimo Gianfreda (CTO) [email protected]
Fabrizio Magugliani (SP&BD)[email protected]
THANK YOU