Christopher Sullivan, Assistant director for biocomputing, Oregon State University - Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing The world has been changed by the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) to quickly understand data as it relates to our environments. These AI workloads are enabled by machine learning...
By Ganesan Narayanasamy, Leader, OpenPOWER Academic Discussion Group and IBM POWER enablement Academic and research organizations have always been leaders in pushing the boundaries of science and technology, and work closely with companies to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. As the leader of the...
The OpenPOWER Foundation’s Academic Discussion Group hosted its 5th annual workshop on November 6, 2020. The annual event is intended to facilitate interaction and engagement between Academic institutions, with a focus on supporting developers from different application areas of scientific computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence. The...
By Abhishek Jadhav, Lead Open Hardware Developer Community (India) and Freelance Tech Journalist After the opening of the POWER instruction set architecture (ISA) last August, there have been many developments from IBM and its community. Some major contributions include OpenPOWER’s A2I and A2O POWER processor core. The OpenPOWER...
By Brad Thomasson, Cognitive Software Engineer, IBM After announcing the newest IBM POWER10 processor at the Hot Chips 2020 in August, our IBM Cognitive Systems Simulation team is now proud to present the IBM POWER10 Functional Simulator. This publicly available simulation environment is designed to educate developers,...
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...