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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.

Summit Presentation Schedule

Wednesday, March 18
Keynote Presentations (9:00 AM – 11:00 AM)

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

 

Summit Member Presentations (1:30 PM – 6:00 PM)

1:30 PM	Vice President, Summit Chair		Michael Diamond	Opening Remarks
1:35 PM	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)		Dr. Tjerk P. Straatsma	Getting Applications Ready for Summit The Next Peak in HPC
1:55 PM	Jülich Supercomputing Centre	video	Dirk Pleiter	Porting Scientific Applications to OpenPOWER
2:10 PM	Rackspace	video	Aaron Sullivan	Life at the Intersection: OpenPOWER, Open Compute, and the Future of Cloud Software & Infrastructure
2:25 PM	IBM (US)	video	Michael Gschwind	Introducing the Little-Endian OpenPOWER Software Development Environment and its application programming interfaces
2:40 PM	NVIDIA	video	John Ashley	NVIDIA Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform for IBM Power
2:55 PM	Altera	video	Nick Finamore	Accelerator Opportunities with OpenPower
3:10 PM	Mellanox	video	Scot Schultz	The Future of Interconnect with OpenPOWER
3:25 PM	PMC Sierra	video	Stephen Bates	Using NVM Express SSDs and CAPI to Accelerate Data-Center Applications in OpenPOWER Systems
3:40 PM	Tyan	video	Albert Mu	Tyan OpenPOWER products and future product plan
3:55 PM	Xilinx / IBM	video	Michaela Blott	Key-Value Store Acceleration with OpenPower
4:10 PM	PGI	video	Doug Miles	PGI compilers for OpenPOWER platforms, which will enable seamless migration of multi-core and GPU-enabled HPC applications from Linux/x86 to OpenPOWER
4:25 PM	Rice University	video	Chandler Wilkerson	Reflections on Migrating IBM APP Genomic Workflow Acceleration to IBM POWER8
4:40 PM	DataDirect Networks	video	Jeff Sisilli	Changing the Game: Accelerating Applications and Improving Performance For Greater Data Center Efficiency
4:55 PM	PowerCore, China	video	Zhu Ya Dong	Linking up CPTA and OPF global members, to help global OPF member to use CPTA as a stepping stone to go into China market
5:10 PM	Teamsun	video	Mao Qiu Yin Zhiqiang Tian	Trusted Computing Applied in OpenPOWER Linux
5:25 PM	Algo-Logic Systems	video	John Lockwood	Enabling financial service firms to compute heterogeneously with Gateware Defined Networking (GDN) to build order books and trade with the lowest latency
5:40 PM	Vice President, Summit Chair		Michael Diamond	Closing remarks

OpenPOWER Pavilion Presentation Schedule

Tuesday, March 17     11:00 AM – 1:00 PM;         5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

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

 

Wednesday, March 18     12:00 PM – 2:00 PM;         5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

12:00 PM	IBM Rochester	video	Todd Rosedahl	On Chip Controller (OCC)
12:30 PM	IBM China	video	Jing Li Bin Xu	HPC solution stack on OpenPOWER
1:00 PM	IBM Systems and Technology Group (India)	video	Satish Kumar Sadasivam	Performance evaluation methodology to the OpenPOWER user community to evaluate the performance using the advanced instrumentation capabilities available in the Power 8 Microprocessor
1:30 PM	IBM Research China	video	Yonghua Lin	SuperVessel–OpenPOWER R&D cloud with operation and practice experience sharing
5:00 PM	IBM	video	Sam Sanjabi	Using Docker in High Performance Computing in OpenPOWER Environment
5:30 PM	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	video	Jack Wells	Present and Future Leadership Computers at OLCF
6:00 PM	IBM Research Lab (China)	video	Fei Chen	FPGA Acceleration in a Power8 cloud
6:15 PM	IBM	video	Stewart Smith	Introduction to OPAL: the OpenPower Abstraction Layer
6:30 PM	Xilinx	video	Manoj Roge	Data center and Cloud computing market landscape and challenges
6:45 PM	IBM	video	Stewart Smith	Customizing and contributing to OPAL

 

OpenPOWER Pavilion Exhibit Schedule

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

 

OpenPOWER ISV Roundtable
Thursday, March 19     9:30 AM – 11:00 PM

9:30 AM

Canonical

video

Randall Ross

– Plenary presentations – Lightening talks – Open discussion and facilitated brainstorming

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OpenPOWER Firmware Training Lab
Thursday, March 19     9:00 AM – 11:00 AM;         12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

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