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...
1 OpenPOWER started with one shared idea -- to drive more innovation in the data center. 5 Beginning with five founders -- IBM, Google, NVIDIA, Mellanox and Tyan, the OpenPOWER Foundation has exponentially grown to now ...
by Jeff Scheel, IBM Linux on Power Chief Engineer Since its inception, the OpenPOWER Foundation has been dedicated to fostering a collaborative environment to drive meaningful hardware and software innovation. As part of that commitment, OpenPOWER today launched a valuable new asset for developers: OpenPOWER Developer...
National Center for Computational Sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA Abstract Hybrid CPU+GPU architectures are a response to power limitations imposed by the end in the last decade of processor clock-rate scaling. This limitation continues to drive supercomputer architecture designs toward massively parallel, hierarchical, and/or hybrid...