Dear OpenPOWER Members, The OpenPOWER Foundation had a great 2016. That momentum will lead us to greater community gains in 2017. In 2016, our membership rose to nearly 300 members and continues to grow at a healthy pace. We introduced a new membership level for ISVs that...
By Timothy Pearson, Raptor Engineering Ever wish you could use something other than an insecure x86 or low-powered ARM machine to communicate with the OpenPOWER server sitting in your data center? Wish no longer! Meet the Talos™ workstation-class ATX mainboard, built on OpenPOWER and bringing the security...
By Alejandra Gando, Director of Communications, Yachay EP The pursuit of supercomputing represents a major step forward for Ecuador and Yachay EP, with IBM and OpenPOWER, is leading the way. Yachay, a planned city for technological innovation and knowledge intensive businesses combining the best ideas, human talent and state-of-the-art infrastructure,...
By Doug Miles, director of PGI compilers & tools, NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA introduced the first production release of the PGI Fortran, C and C++ compilers with OpenACC targeting Linux/OpenPOWER and Tesla computing systems, including IBM’s OpenPOWER LC servers that combine POWER8 CPUs with NVIDIA NVLink interconnect...
By Mateo Valero and Enric Banda, Barcelona Supercomputing Center The last decade has seen a worldwide increasing interest in Precision Medicine (PM). As a result, a number of computing platforms have been set up in different centres and countries following different strategies and road maps. A common challenge...
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By Deepak Vinchhi, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Julia Computing, Inc. Deep Learning is now ubiquitous in the machine learning world, with useful applications in a number of areas. In this blog post, we explore the use of Julia for deep learning experiments on Power Systems...