SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community dedicated to accelerating data center innovation for POWER platforms, announced today its first OpenPOWER Summit. The Summit will be held March 17-19, 2015, at the San Jose Convention Center in California. "In less...
By Mark Harris With the US Department of Energy’s announcement of plans to base two future flagship supercomputers on IBM POWER CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and NVIDIA NVLink interconnect, many developers are getting started building GPU-accelerated applications that run on IBM POWER processors. The good news is that...
By Ken King, GM of OpenPOWER Alliances, IBM Last week, SC14 brought together the brightest minds and organizations in the high-performance computing (HPC) industry. It was truly exciting to discuss with these experts some of the business challenges HPC is tackling today – from medical research...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz today announced two new High Performance Computing (HPC) awards to put the nation on a fast-track to next generation exascale computing, which will help to advance U.S. leadership in scientific research and promote America’s economic and national...
San Jose, Calif., November 18, 2013—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the latest release of the Altera SDK for OpenCL supports IBM Power Systems servers as an OpenCL system host. Customers are now able to develop OpenCL code that targets IBM Power Systems CPUs and accelerator boards with...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Chelsio Communications, the leading provider of 40Gb Ethernet (40GbE) Unified Wire Adapters and ASICs, announced today that it has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, expanding the open technical community for collaboration on the POWER architecture. "We are proud to join...
By Scot Schultz, Director of HPC and Technical Computing, Mellanox Technologies Mellanox has partnered with IBM and a group of fellow OpenPOWER Foundation member companies, including NVIDIA, Altera, to launch a brand new academic challenge for computer science graduate students. Called “Innov8 with POWER8,” the program...
By Brad McCredie, President of OpenPOWER and IBM Fellow and Vice President of Power Development On Monday IBM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced that they had signed a Definitive Agreement under which GLOBALFOUNDRIES plans to acquire IBM's global commercial semiconductor technology business, including intellectual property, world-class technologists and...
San Francisco, USA - October 8th, 2014 –TYAN, an industry-leading server platform design manufacturer, and subsidiary of MITAC Computing Technology Corporation (Mitac Group), launched its OpenPOWER Customer Reference System, the TYAN GN70-BP010. It is the first OpenPOWER Reference System and follows the spirit of innovation...
Innovative, Collaborative and Open Open resources, management flexibility, and hardware customization are becoming more important to IT experts across various industries. To meet the emerging needs of evolving IT worlds, TYAN is honored to present its Palmetto System, the TYAN GN70-BP010. As the first commercialized customer...