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09 Mar, 2016 OpenPOWER Members at Open Compute Summit Detail Their Barreleye Plans

By Sam Ponedal, Social Strategist Last year at Open Compute Summit,OpenPOWER member Rackspace stole the show when they announced their plans to develop Barreleye, their new mega-server built with open standards across the board. In the year since, OpenPOWER members have jumped on the Barreleye bandwagon, and it’s easy to see why when Barreleye was described by Rackspace’s Aaron Sullivan as having “the capacity for phenomenal virtual machine, container, and bare metal compute services.”

07 Mar, 2016 India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Joins OpenPOWER to Spread HPC Education

By Dr. VCV Rao and Mr. Sanjay Wandheker An open ecosystem relies on collaboration to thrive, and at the Centre for Advanced Computing (C-DAC), we fully embrace that belief. C-DAC is a pioneer in several advanced areas of IT and electronics, and has always been a proactive...

22 Feb, 2016 New OpenPOWER Member DRC Computing Discusses FPGAs at IBM Interconnect

By Roy Graham, President and COO, DRC Computer Corp. New business models bring new opportunities, and my relationship with IBM is proof-positive of that fact. Although I respected them, in the previous way of doing business they were the competition, and it was us or them. Wow,...

19 Feb, 2016 New OpenPOWER Member Brocade Showcases Work at Mobile World Congress

By Brian Larsen, Director, Partner Business Development, Brocade In my 32 year career in the IT industry there has never been a better time to embrace the partnership needed to meet client requirements, needs and expectations. Brocade has built its business on partnering with suppliers who...

09 Feb, 2016 OpenPOWER Summit 2016: Vive la Révolution!

By Calista Redmond, President, OpenPOWER Foundation OpenPOWER Summit is coming up April 5-8 in San Jose and we want you there! In fact, we're making it easier than ever for you to attend by offering 20% off your registration fee by using our discount code. Just...

09 Feb, 2016 OpenPOWER Summit Announces “Revolutionizing the Data Center” Speaker Lineup

Summit to feature 50+ member presentations, keynote speakers, technology demos and more SAN JOSE, Calif., February 09, 2016 – Today, the OpenPOWER Foundation announced the lineup of speakers for the OpenPOWER Summit 2016, taking place April 5-8 at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) at the San Jose Convention...

02 Feb, 2016 Announcing a New Era of Openness with Power 3.0

By Michael Gschwind, Chief Architect & Senior Manager, Power System Architecture, IBM I am excited to announce the availability of the next generation of the Power Architecture, ushering in a new era for systems. The new Power Instruction Set Architecture 3.0 (Power ISA 3.0) marks the first...

06 Jan, 2016 Workshop Recap: OpenPOWER Academic Community Shares Latest Advances

By Ganesan Narayanasamy (OpenPOWER Academic Discussion Group Leader) Before SC15 would kick off on November 15th, about 40 of the 170+ members of the OpenPOWER Foundation were already gathered in Austin to discuss OpenPOWER technologies for High Performance Computing (HPC) and High Performance Data Analytics applications....

05 Jan, 2016 Continuing the Datacenter Revolution

By John Zannos and Calista Redmond Dear Fellow Innovators, As the newly elected Chair and President of the OpenPOWER Foundation, we would like to take this opportunity to share our vision as we embark on a busy 2016. Additionally, we want to make sure our fellow members...

05 Jan, 2016 OpenPOWER Foundation Names New Board Leadership to Propel POWER Architecture

John Zannos of Canonical elected Chair; Calista Redmond of IBM elected President PISCATAWAY, NJ, Jan. 5, 2016 – The OpenPOWER Foundation today announced the election of John Zannos, Canonical, Chair, and Calista Redmond, IBM, President of the OpenPOWER Foundation Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2016....

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