What a phenomenal SC15 in Austin

November. For those members not

familiar with this trade event it is king of

High Performance Computing.

Over 50% of our membership works in

or has solutions for HPC.

The OpenPOWER Foundation took over

the floor having 46 members attending

with most members demonstrating

OpenPOWER solutions to a

High Performance Computing Audience.

We turned the show floor OpenPOWER

Blue.

The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as

an open technical membership organization that will ena-

ble data centers to rethink their approach to technology.

Member companies are enabled to customize POWER

CPU processors and system platforms for optimization

and innovation for their business needs. Video

With over 170+ members the

OpenPOWER Summit is the

place to be. Once again we will

be joining the NVIDIA GPU

Technology Conference in Silicon

Valley at the San Jose McEnery

Convention Center April 5-7.

Clients, Prospective Clients,

Academics, Press, Analysts and

fellow members will in

attendance.

The call for Speakers,

Exhibitors and Posters

have recently gone out.

Members there is a great

solution for a pre-built

booth. Confirm your space to-

day.

Learn about everything Summit

by Clicking here.

SuperComputing 2015

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

New Members 2

New Solutions 2

Leadership

Corner

3

Technical

Steering

Committee

3

Working &

Academic

Groups

4

Marketing

Committee

4

OpenPOWER Summit April 5-7, 2016

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P A R T I C I PA T E

I N T H E

O P F S U M M I T :

Call for Speakers

Call for Exhibitors

Call for Posters

Due by Friday Jan. 15

Call for Solutions

Members if you plan to

announce or reveal a

new solution please

click on the link above

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OpenPOWER INDIA Summit?

If not you can download the

presentations.

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“We want our

systems open, all

the way down.

This is a big step in

that direction.”

Aaron Sullivan

Rackspace

New Solutions

New Members OpenPOWER continues to

grow. We now have a 175

members. 32 Total (24 Silver,

Academic or Assoc in since

September.

Please welcome our new

members. Reach out and find

new ways to work together.

All employees of members can

register and find workgroups

and committees through the

Member Login at the top right

of every page by using their

company e-mail.

Current Members List

Arrow Electronics

Bittware, Inc

Carnegie Mellon

Centre for Modelling & Sim

Ciara Technologies

CSPi (Myricom)

Dalian University of Technology

e4 Computer Engg SPA

Edico Genome Corp.

ICM University of Warsaw

Microsemi Corp

Nanyang Technological Univ

National University of Singapore

NIT Karnataka

NIT Warangal

Raptor Engineering

Romeo HPC Center

SanDisk

SASTRA University

SDTL - Shandong Intelligent Data

Technique Co

Solarflare

Texas A&M Engineering Experi-

ment Station

University of Florida

University of TX TACC

How can I join?

samples to our San

Antonio lab and to

our development

partners.

Barreleye was

demonstrated in its

first public forum

during a Rackspace-

hosted Open Com-

pute engineering

workshop.

Read the whole story

here

Since then, we’ve

worked closely

with our

partners Avago,

IBM, Mellanox,

PMC, Samsung to

make that

concept a reality.

The first Barreleye

servers came

online in July, in

China. In August,

we shipped

engineering

At the end of 2014, Rackspace announced its affiliation with OpenPOWER. At that time, we shared our intention to build an OpenPOWER server that cut across four major open source community initiatives (OpenStack, Open Com-pute, OpenPOWER, and, of course, Linux).

This past spring, at the Open

Compute and OpenPOWER

annual summits, Rackspace

offered up our vision for a

more powerful cloud, and

shared our “Barreleye” server

concept design. (We chose to

name it after the barreleye fish

because as you can see from

the photo above, the fish has a

transparent head. Get it? It’s

open!)

Rackspace, OpenPOWER &

Open Compute: Full Speed

Ahead with Barreleye:

By Aaron Sullivan, Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer, Rackspace

In an open community, with great partners, it’s amazing how fast things get done.

O P E N P O W E R

http://openpowerfoundation.org/

Leadership Corner

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OpenPOWER Foundation Names

New Board Leadership to Propel

POWER Architecture

The OpenPOWER Foundation today announced the election of John Zannos, Canonical, Chair, and Calista Redmond, IBM, President of the OpenPOWER Foundation Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2016. Zannos and Redmond bring deep knowledge of the open technology development community and intimate familiarity with the Foundation’s core mission, with both playing key roles within the Foundation since 2014. The new leadership will continue to guide the proliferation of OpenPOWER-based technology solutions built on IBM’s POWER architecture in today’s datacenters.

Former Chair, Gordon MacKean of

Google, and President, Brad

McCredie of IBM, will remain close

advisors to the OpenPOWER

Foundation, serving as non-voting

Board Advisors to provide

technical and strategic roadmap

guidance as appropriate.

See the full press release.

ISA Profile

IODA2 Specification

CAIA Specification

The TSC has 3 current

items up for comments.

The commenting period

closes Jan. 10, 2016.

Please make sure that

your comments are in for

review.

Technical Steering Committee

2016 OPF

Priorities

Tackle system bottlenecks through collaboration on memory bandwidth, acceleration, and interconnect advances. Grow workloads and software community optimizing on OpenPOWER.

Further

OpenPOWER’s

validation

through

adoption

conveyed via

member and end

user testimonials,

benchmarking,

and industry

Influencer

reports.

http://openpowerfoundation.org/

Continuing the

Datacenter Revolution

Blog By John Zannos

and Calista Redmond

can be read here

into their OPF based solutions. These

solutions descriptions will be placed on the

OPF website and in the new

Developer Resource Ecosystem. If you

haven’t seen our new Developer Ecosystem

we urge you to do so. And if you are inter-

ested in adding your developer resources

please send an e-mail to Sam Ponedal

The OpenPOWER Foundation is

Revolutionizing the Datacenter. We ask

that if you have a Marketing or Sales role

that you join us each month for the

Marketing Committee meeting. To receive

meeting notices and updates you must join

the Marketing Committee. You can do this

by visiting the Member Login at the top right

of every page of the OpenPOWER Founda-

tion website.

Currently the Marketing Committee is

reviewing multiple RFPs to be the agency for

OPF. Bring your experience to the team

and help us select the right agency.

The Marketing Committee is also currently

asking for each member to provide insight

OPF in the News / Events

Press Contact

In the Wheelhouse: Evolution of Open-

POWER

Continuing the Datacenter Revolution

OpenPOWER Foundation Names New

Board Leadership to Propel POWER Archi-

tecture

OpenPOWER: The Rebel Alliance of the

Industry

Workshop Recap: OpenPOWER Personal-

ized Medicine Working Group

Video: What Does “Open” Mean to You?

Video: IBM and OpenPOWER Partner with

Oak Ridge National Labs to Solve World’s

Toughest Challenges

Currently there are 11 approved

workgroups. If you have yet to share your

experience and knowledge we ask that you

find a workgroup that peeks your interest

and one where you fell you can most help

the foundation. Join today by logging in

using your company e-mail or registration

e-mail. Member Login

25G IO Interoperability Mode WG

Accelerator WG

Application Software

Compliance

Hardware Architecture

Integrated Solutions WG

IO Work Group (OPIO WG)

Memory WG

Open Server Development Platform

System Software

FSI (Full Service Interface) WG

Marketing Committee

Working Groups

******* CALL FOR PAPERS *********

International Workshop on OpenPOWER for HPC

(IWOPH'16)

June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany

Papers submissions due by April 3, 2016

******* CALL FOR PAPERS *********

Workshop Organizers:

Prof. Dirk Pleiter, Ju lich & Jack Wells, Oak Ridge

This workshop will take place within the ISC High

Performance conference 2016. It is intended to pro-

vide a venue for the broader HPC community to

Further understand OpenPOWER technologies and

discuss how they can be harnessed for HPC.

Full Details can be found here.

Academia Discussion

http://openpowerfoundation.org/

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