Today at OpenPOWER Summit 2020, OpenPOWER Foundation announced two key technologies contributed by IBM to the open source community. A2O POWER processor core, an out-of-order follow-up to the A2I core, and associated FPGA environment Open Cognitive Environment (Open-CE), based on IBM’s PowerAI to enable improved...
At The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit today, the OpenPOWER Foundation announced a major contribution to the open source ecosystem: the IBM A2I POWER processor core design and associated FPGA environment. Following the opening of the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) last August, today’s announcement...
By: Sandy Woodward, OpenPOWER Foundation Compliance Work Group Chair, IBM Academy of Technology Member There is much excitement in the August 2019 announcement of open-sourcing the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), which provides the opportunity for experimentation and collaboration. When the hardware implementation of the ISA...
By: Hugh Blemings On August 20, 2019 the OpenPOWER Foundation, along with IBM, announced that the POWER ISA was to be released under an open license. You can read more about it in previous posts but the short story is that anyone is now free to build...
Arghya Kusum Das, Ph.D., Asst. Professor, UW-Platteville In the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) at the University of Wisconsin at Platteville, I work closely with hardware system designers to improve the quality of the institute’s research and teaching. Recently, I have engaged with the...
By: Mendy Furmanek, Director, OpenPOWER Processor Enablement, IBM and President, OpenPOWER Foundation 2019 was an important year for the OpenPOWER Foundation - especially the second half of the year. In the course of a few months, our ecosystem became even more open and the POWER architecture...
Ganesan Narayanasamy, OpenPOWER Leader in Education and Research, IBM Systems Our society is struggling with deepfake images and videos and the harmful impact that they can have by spreading misinformation. Detecting these malicious efforts will become even more difficult as the technology becomes more advanced. As...
*This article was originally published by David Spurway on LinkedIn.* David Spurway, IBM Power Systems CTO, UK & Ireland, IBM OpenPOWER Foundation and PowerAI make AI accessible to all AI is the most buzz-worthy technology today, with applications ranging from creating TV news anchors to creating new perfumes. At IBM, we...
By Hugh Blemings, Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation At the OpenPOWER Foundation, creating a level of open hardware has always been one of our core values. In fact, the Foundation was created back in 2013 to encourage open innovation at a system level around POWER technologies. As...
By: Hugh Blemings, Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation The success of open source software has made the march toward open hardware that extends down to the chip level inevitable. With the release of the IBM POWER ISA at OpenPOWER Summit North America, we are one step closer...