By Gordon MacKean, OpenPOWER Chairman We are here, we made it: the OpenPOWER Foundation’s inaugural Summit, "Rethink the Data Center," starts tomorrow! I wanted to take this opportunity to welcome everyone that will be joining us for the OpenPOWER Summit taking place at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology...
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced its FPGA acceleration solutions are being prominently showcased throughout the OpenPOWER Summit 2015. Luminaries from industry and academia participating in the event are using the OpenPOWER Summit to "Rethink the Data Center"...
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced it will participate in the inaugural OpenPOWER™ Summit 2015 to further enable collaborative innovation for next-generation data centers. As a member of the OpenPOWER Foundation, Xilinx is delivering FPGA-based acceleration technologies for high...
PMC Collaborates with Industry Leaders on OpenPOWER Advanced Server, Networking, Storage and Acceleration Technology SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 2014-- PMC-Sierra, Inc. (PMC®) (Nasdaq:PMCS), the semiconductor and software solutions innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store big data, today announced the company has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open...
By Terri Virnig, Vice President of Power Ecosystem and Strategy, IBM Systems It is hard to believe that this semester’s Innov8 with POWER8 Challenge has come to a close. Over the course of the fall semester, we worked with three top universities – North Carolina State University,...
Executive Summary The increasing use of smart phones, sensors and social media is a reality across many industries today. It is not just where and how business is conducted that is changing, but the speed and scope of the business decision-making process is also transforming because...
Abstract In this technology preview demonstration, we will show the concurrent execution of an analytical workload on a POWER8 server with K40 GPUs. DB2 will detect both the presence of GPU cards in the server and the opportunity in queries to shift the processing of certain...
By Carol B. Hernandez, Sr. Technical Staff Member, Power Systems Design Deploying POWER8 virtual machines for your projects is straightforward and fast using OVH POWER8 cloud services. POWER8 virtual machines are available in two flavors in OVH’s RunAbove cloud: http://labs.runabove.com/power8/. POWER8 compute is offered in RunAbove...
OpenPOWER Summit to Feature Over 35 Member Presentations, Exhibitor Pavillion, ISV Roundtables and Firmware Training Sessions SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb 19, 2015 – Today, the OpenPOWER Foundation announced a solid lineup of speakers headlining its inaugural OpenPOWER Summit at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference at the San Jose Convention...
By: Gordon MacKean, OpenPOWER Chairman Today the OpenPOWER Foundation hit a new milestone. We are now officially 101 members strong. But, we all know numbers in themselves are not what is significant, it is what they represent. For the OpenPOWER community, it signals to us that...