Blogs
13 Nov, 2015 Accelerating Key-value Stores (KVS) with FPGAs and OpenPOWER
By Michaela Blott, Principal Engineer, Xilinx Research First, a bit of background-- I lead a research team in the European headquarters of Xilinx where we look into FPGA-based solutions for data centers. We experiment with the most advanced platforms and tool flows, hence our interest in...
13 Nov, 2015 American Megatrends Custom Built Server Management Platform for OpenPOWER
By Christine M. Follett, Marketing Communications Manager, American Megatrends, Inc. As one of the newest members of the OpenPOWER Foundation, we at American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI) are very excited get started and contribute to the mission and goals of the Foundation. Our President and CEO, Subramonian...
06 Oct, 2015 Rackspace, OpenPOWER & Open Compute: Full Speed Ahead with Barreleye
By Aaron Sullivan, Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer, Rackspace In an open community, with great partners, it’s amazing how fast things get done. At the end of 2014, Rackspace announced its affiliation with OpenPOWER. At that time, we shared our intention to build an OpenPOWER server that...
05 Oct, 2015 Interconnect Your Future with Mellanox 100Gb EDR Interconnects and CAPI
By Scot Schultz Director of HPC and Technical Computing, Mellanox Business Challenge Some computing jobs are so large that they must be split into pieces and solved in parallel, distributed via the network across a number of computing nodes. We find some of the world’s largest computing...
25 Sep, 2015 Using CAPI and Flash for larger, faster NoSQL and analytics
By Brad Brech, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Power Systems Solutions Business Challenge Suppose you’re a game developer with a release coming up. If things go well, your user base could go from zero to hundreds of thousands in no time. And these gamers expect your app to capture...
10 Sep, 2015 Accelerating Business Applications in the Data-Driven Enterprise with CAPI
By Sumit Gupta, VP, HPC & OpenPOWER Operations at IBM This blog is part of a series: Pt 2: Using CAPI and Flash for larger, faster NoSQL and analytics Pt 3: Interconnect Your Future with Mellanox 100Gb EDR Interconnects and CAPI Pt 4: Accelerating Key-value Stores (KVS) with...
24 Aug, 2015 Liquid Cooling for OpenPOWER: Asetek Accelerates the Performance of OpenPOWER Platforms
Asetek® joined the OpenPOWER™ Foundation in July of this year with great enthusiasm. As the world’s leading provider of liquid cooling systems for CPU and GPUs, with over 2 million units sold, Asetek knows it can bring a lot to OpenPOWER designs and enable the community to productize the highest performance systems and clusters leveraging liquid cooling for OpenPOWER.
Asetek is already engaged in delivering liquid cooling designs that accelerate the performance of OpenPOWER platforms. At the 2015 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC15) in Frankfurt, Germany, in July of this year, Asetek provided the first public showing of a liquid cooling system for POWER8 processors. Particularly interesting about this design is that it enables POWER8 server nodes to utilize the highest performing overclocked Power processors without concerns for throttling.
Given Asetek’s history in enabling Top500 HPC sites, the current cutting edge performance and expected enhancements to POWER processors will likely demonstrate a need for liquid cooling to provide non-throttling clusters with extreme rack densities.
