OpenPOWER Foundation

07 Nov, 2019 OpenPOWER – The Best Combination of Open and High Performance

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...

07 Nov, 2017 OpenPOWER Foundation Members to Present at SC17 Conference

SC17 takes place November 12-17, 2017. Dedicated to showcasing work in high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis by the international HPC community, this year’s event is bound to be memorable. OpenPOWER Foundation members including IBM, NVIDIA, Mellanox, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...

12 May, 2017 We’re Attending the OpenPOWER Developer Congress — Here’s Why You Should, Too. Insights from Nimbix, Mellanox, and Xilinx

Prominent OpenPOWER Foundation members have provided the reasons they’re taking time out of their busy days to support the OpenPOWER Developer Congress and send their experts and team members. This is why YOU should attend too! Nimbix Enables On-Demand Cloud for Developers Why Nimbix is Participating in the...

08 Mar, 2017 OpenPOWER and Open Compute Open the Data Center

By Bryan Talik, President, OpenPOWER Foundation The old adage “birds of a feather flock together” often proves true, and the members of the OpenPOWER Foundation are a testament to that wisdom. In fact, members of the OpenPOWER Foundation are coming together at the 2017 U.S. Open...

05 Oct, 2015 Interconnect Your Future with Mellanox 100Gb EDR Interconnects and CAPI

By Scot Schultz Director of HPC and Technical Computing, Mellanox Business Challenge Some computing jobs are so large that they must be split into pieces and solved in parallel, distributed via the network across a number of computing nodes. We find some of the world’s largest computing...

06 Aug, 2015 Opening the Flood Gates- OpenPOWER Two Years Later

By Brad McCredie, President, OpenPOWER Foundation The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher Two years ago, on August 6, 2013, IBM, along with Google, Tyan, NVIDIA and Mellanox, came together to announce the creation of OpenPOWER with the goal of building a worldwide collaborative ecosystem based on IBM’s POWER architecture. This bold move reversed the ongoing trend of data center architectures becoming increasingly closed. IBM built a broad partnership with technology providers and clients to build an open data center platform that would allow collaboration and foster innovation. Nobody knew exactly what would happen next, but we all knew that for better or worse we would be turning the world of IT infrastructure on its head.

23 Apr, 2014 OpenPOWER Foundation Unveils First Innovations and Roadmap

San Francisco, CA – Open Innovation Summit – 23 April 2014 – The OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community dedicated to accelerating data center innovation, today took its first steps to deliver transformative system designs based on IBM’s new POWER8 processor. At the Open Innovation Summit today, with over 100...