Blogs
04 Jun, 2015 Mellanox and the OpenPOWER EcoSystem to Help Generate Economic Growth
In the latest announcement (UK Government Invests £115 Million in Big Data and Cognitive Computing Research with STFC and IBM), the STFC Hartree Center is setting out to enable the latest in world-class, state-of-the-art technologies for the development of advanced software solutions to solve real...
07 May, 2015 The Open Secret Behind the Success of OpenPOWER
By Brad McCredie, President The release this week of Intel’s new 18-core Haswell-EX chip, gives us an opportunity to gauge how OpenPOWER technology and our “co-opetition” business model are stacking up. It’s an open secret. In just little over a year, with more than 10 new...
12 Apr, 2015 A POWERFUL Birthday Gift to Moore’s Law
By Bradley McCredie President, OpenPOWER Foundation As we prepare to join the computing world in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, we can’t help but notice how the aging process has slowed it down. In fact, in a recent interview with IEEE Spectrum, Moore said, “I...
20 Mar, 2015 IBM’s First OpenPOWER Server Targets HPC Workloads
The first annual OpenPOWER Summit, held this week in San Jose, Calif., in tandem with NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), launched a raft of hardware and other announcements intended to cede market share from Intel. On Wednesday, foundation members showed off more than a dozen hardware solutions, an assortment...
20 Mar, 2015 Tyan showcases its first commercialized POWER8 Based System at OpenPOWER Summit 2015
More Cutting-Edge Platforms to Be Displayed at NVIDIA 2015 GPU Technology Conference TYAN OpenPOWER Product Information: http://www.tyan.com/solutions/tyan_openpower_system.html Related OPF Summit 2015 Information: https://openpowerfoundation.org/2015-summit/ Related GTC 2015 Information: http://www.gputechconf.com/ San Jose, California, USA - March 19, 2015 –TYAN, an industry-leading server platform design manufacturer and subsidiary of MITAC Computing Technology...
20 Mar, 2015 Cirrascale® Joins OpenPOWER™ Foundation, Announces GPU-Accelerated POWER8®-Based Multi-Device Development Platform
The Cirrascale RM4950 4U POWER8-based development platform, with Cirrascale SR3514 PCIe switch riser, enables up to four NVIDIA Tesla GPU Accelerators or other compatible PCIe Gen 3.0 devices. Cirrascale Corporation®, a premier developer of build-to-order, open architecture blade-based and rackmount computing infrastructure, today announced its membership...
18 Mar, 2015 Algo-Logic Systems launches CAPI enabled Order Book running on IBM® POWER8™ server
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Algo-Logic Systems, a recognized leader in providing hardware-accelerated, deterministic, ultra-low-latency products, systems and solutions for accelerated finance, packet processing and embedded system industries, announced today availability of their new Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) enabled Full Order...
18 Mar, 2015 OpenPOWER Foundation Technology Leaders Unveil Hardware Solutions To Deliver New Server Alternatives
Technology Movement Backed by Google, IBM, NVIDIA, Mellanox and Tyan to Transform Data Center with World’s First Open Server Architecture Rapidly Expanding Ecosystem Fueled by More than 100 Members Worldwide Working on More than 100 Innovations POWER8 Processors Offer Nearly 60% Better Price-Performance than Alternative Chips OPENPOWER...