By Michael Gschwind, Chief Architect & Senior Manager, Power System Architecture, IBM When we founded OpenPOWER to create a new inclusive ecosystem built around collaborative innovation, we knew that innovation needed to be built around a core of common standards. To ensure interoperability of new technologies...
Registration Goes Live, Opens Call for Speakers and Exhibits SAN JOSE, Calif.,December 1,, 2015 — The OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community dedicated to accelerating datacenter innovation by taking advantage of open interfaces, reference designs, and collaboration opportunities on the POWER processor architecture, today announced its...
By Shinji Abe, Senior Manager for IT Platform Division of NEC As usage of the cloud expands, cloud data centers will need to be able to accommodate a wide range of services, from office applications to on-premises services and in the future: the Internet of Things...
By Richard Talbot, Director - Big Data, Analytics and Cloud Infrastructure No doubt, the words “surgery” and “human genome” rarely appear in the same sentence. Yet that’s what a team of research scientists in the Texas Medical Center announced recently --- a new procedure designed to...
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...
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...
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...
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...