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Technical Steering Committee UpdateJeff Brown, TSC Chair

IBM, Emerging Product Development, IBM Academy of Technology member

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Topics

TSC and Workgroup Accomplishments• OpenPOWER Reference Design Bundle - Developer Platform Workgroup

• CAPI Related Specifications

• Power Processor Architecture

• OpenPOWER Document Development

2016 Focus • Resource Catalog

• OpenPOWER Memory Bus Specification

• Integrated Solutions Workgroup – Randall Ross Chair

• Additional Workgroups

OpenPOWER Ready™

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OpenPOWER Reference Design Bundle

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Dev Platform Workgroup – Workgroup Note Chair: Chuck Bartlett, Tyan Available on http://openpowerfoundation.org Single socket reference design Complete set of information including list and

pointers to various firmware items

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CAPI Related Specifications

Accelerator WG Chair – Allan Cantle, Nallatech

PSL/AFU Interface

• Power Service Layer (PSL)

• Accelerator Function Unit (AFU)

• Accelerator Workgroup Specification

Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture (CAIA)

• HW Architecture Workgroup Specification

Available on http://openpowerfoundation.org

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Power Processor Architecture

Hardware Architecture Workgroup – Dr. Michael Gschwind, IBM Chair• OpenPOWER ISA Profile - Power® ISA 2.07b subset

Published as WG Specification

Beginning work on update based on recently released Power® ISA 3.0

• IO Device Architecture (IODA2) – PCIe® Host Bridge Published as WG Specification

Beginning work on update based on RFC from IBM for Power9

• Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture – CAPI CAIA specification Published as WG Specification

Beginning work on update based on RFC from IBM for Power9™

System Software Workgroup – Jeff Scheel, IBM Chair• 64b Little Endian Application Binary Interface (64bLEABI)

Published with Apache 2.0 license – SYSSW WG managing future updates

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OpenPOWER Document Development

OpenSource tooling

• XML text source with docbook tags

• Github repositories for collaborative document development

• Maven processing to generate web ready html and pdf documents

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OpenPOWER Ready™

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Resource Catalog

Generalized library capability for eco-system content

Categorization and search user interface

<URL>

WG specifications and Notes

Product information

Solution information

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OpenPOWER Memory Bus Specification

Memory WG Specification Draft

Chair: David Wang, Inphi Corp.

Abstract OPMB Compliant Memory System

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Integrated Solutions Workgroup

Chair: Randall Ross, Canonical

Focus: Identifying Integrated Solutions that would make good targets for OpenPOWER Foundation workgroups to develop / optimize an OpenPOWER solution.

Currently Looking at: Exploring the right scope and projects

• Machine Learning / Deep learning / Cognitive Computing

• Mobile Edge Computing

Join us and share your insights

Randall has organized an ISV Roundtable on Thursday

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Additional Workgroups

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Workgroup Focus

ComplianceSandra Woodward, IBM Chair

• OpenPOWER Architecture Compliance Definition published as WG Specification• Working to complete compliance criteria for the each WG Spec as it is approved. • Presented at the OpenPOWER Pavilion theater yesterday at 12:45pm

25GIO Compatibility Dan Dreps, IBM Chair

• 25Gbps PHY and DataLink Training Specification• Compatibility to multiple transport protocols on same Power9 physical IO

Personalized Medicine Dr. Zaid Al-Ars, Bluebee Chair

• Accelerating Cancer Diagnostics Pipelines Using Technologies of OpenPOWER• Presenting this afternoon at 4:55pm – Summit Room 220C

FSI Specification Thomas Pflueger, IBM Chair

• Robust service interface used in IBM Power chipset• Encouraging ecosystem members to develop / attach direct to FSI • Hardened FSI Slave or SoftFSI

IO Workgroup Rakesh Sharma, IBM Chair

• Enrich OpenPOWER IO offering, partner collaboration and workgroup assets• OpenPOWER I/O Porting Documentation, testing guidance


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OpenPOWER Ready™

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Announcing OpenPOWER Ready™ !!

Ecosystem Products / solutions may display badge• Hardware and software

• Components, applications, and systems

• Development and validation tools

Participants request to use it!

Encourage product usage in ecosystem

Compatibility

OpenPOWER Ready™ List

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Satisfying OpenPOWER Ready™ Criteria

Show a product satisfies the criteria by:1. Self Assessment

2. Attending an OpenPOWER Plugfest and demonstrate completing the criteria publicly

3. A 3rd Party may be used to perform the evaluation (1 or 2) on behalf of the product owner

OpenPOWER Ready™ 2016 Definition and Criteria • Workgroup Note detailing the program

• <URL> pointing to webpage

OpenPOWER Ready™ Plugfest Preview• Friday 4/8, 8AM – 11AM Santa Clara II

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OpenPOWER Ready™ Request

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Owner (Company, etc)

Contact Name

Contact email

Product Name

Short Product Description

Tag String

Product info URL

Bitmap or vector graphic image

OpenPOWER Ready Category (system, IO, CAPI, OS, App, etc.)

Version of Criteria for Mark

Completed Checklist (for category)

ProductOpenPOWER READY Criteria Version

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OpenPOWER Ready™ Flow

Criteriax.y

Product

AssessComplete request / report and submit to OpenPOWERFoundation via email

Done?

Notify about missing parts

Create Ready_Record for resource catalog

Send notification to requester

OpenPOWER FoundationRequesting Entity


OpenPOWER ReadyTM List

Already have nnn products displaying the mark!

Resource Catalog Search • Resource Type: OpenPOWER Ready

• Main Category: <System, IO, CAPI, OS, App> (optional)

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Thank You!

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