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...
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...
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...