Standing room only at the OpenPOWER Summit
The First Annual OpenPOWER Summit took place at the San Jose Convention Center. It was hosted within the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) which had thousands of technology sector attendees and significant industry press and analyst presence including developers, researchers, government agencies, and industry luminaries. The OpenPOWER Summit had a lineup of OpenPOWER Foundation keynote speakers, technical workgroup updates and member presentations on March 18th. During the three-day event there was an exhibitor pavilion where OpenPOWER Members demonstrated their latest advancements.
9:00 AM | Vice President, Summit Chair | Michael Diamond | Opening remarks | |
9:05 AM | OpenPOWER Chairman | Gordon MacKean | Advancing the OpenPOWER vision | |
9:25 AM | OpenPOWER President | Brad McCredie | The disruptive technology of OpenPOWER Ecosystem Hardware Reveal | |
9:45 AM | OpenPOWER TSC Chair | Jeff Brown Randall Ross Sandra Woodward Rakesh Sharma |
OpenPOWER Foundation Technical Initiatives | |
10:45 AM | Canonical | Randall Ross | How Ubuntu is enabling OpenPOWER and innovation | |
11:00 AM | Vice President, Summit Chair | Michael Diamond | Closing of first session |
11:00 AM | IBM Canada Laboratory | video | Yaoqing Gao | Power and Speed: Maximizing Application Performance on IBM Power Systems with XL C/C++ Compiler |
11:30 AM | IBM Canada Laboratory & NVIDIA | video | Kelvin Li | XL C/C++ and GPU Programming on Power Systems |
12:00 PM | IBM | video | Sina Meraji Berni Schiefer |
Concurrent execution of an analytical workload on a POWER8 server with K40 GPUs |
12:30 PM | IBM (US) | video | Michael Gschwind | POWER8 — the first OpenPOWER processor |
5:00 PM | IBM (US) T.J. Watson Research Data Centric Systems | video | Bruce D’Amora Gordon Fossum |
Data Centric Interactive Visualization of Very Large Data |
5:30 PM | Teamsun | video | Song Yu Li Guang Cheng Ma Yuan Liang Chen Qing Hong |
System Management Tool for OpenPOWER |
6:00 PM | IBM | Srini Chari | Crossing the Performance Chasm with OpenPOWER | |
6:20 PM | University of Toronto | video | Jeff Cassidy | Accelerated Photodynamic Cancer Therapy Planning with FullMonte on OpenPOWER |
6:40 PM | Nallatech | video | Allan Cantle | Enabling Coherent FPGA Acceleration |
Tuesday, March 17 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM; 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM |
Wednesday, March 18 | 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM; 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM |
Thursday, March 19 | 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
9:30 AM | Canonical | video | Randall Ross | – Plenary presentations – Lightening talks – Open discussion and facilitated brainstorming |
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9:00 AM | IBM | video | Patrick Williams Chris Austen Mike Bliss |
– Architectural Overview and Selected Deep-dive – Hands-on Lab of Building, Modifying, and Testing |