Document provided by Jerry Tsou (IBM China)

1. Catalyst for
Open Innovation

2. Moore’s Law Not Holding Up
Next Gen Data Centers Depend on Innovation from:
2000 2020
Memory
Storage
I/O Attach
Accelerators
They’re Closing
the Gap
Performance/$
Processor
alone

3. Optimization for the Cognitive Era
Software and Hardware Co-optimization
for the entire Data journey of AI workloads
Built on industry leading accelerated technologies
Deployed and delivered via a cloud operational model
3 Strategic Tenets
Open Source
Software
Partner Software
Industry Solutions
DevEcosystem
Accelerator Roadmaps
Open Accelerator Interfaces
Optimized Libraries
hardware
software
+
SoftwareHardware

4. Vision
Incorporated – Dec 2013
Execution
OpenPOWER Summit – March 2015
Adoption
340+ Members – today

5. Ecosystem

6. Chip / SOC
This is What A Revolution Looks Like © 2018 OpenPOWER Foundation
I/O / Storage / Acceleration
Boards / Systems
System / Integration
Software
Implementation / HPC / Research

7. Software
Implementation / HPC / Research
Chip / SOC
I/O / Storage / Acceleration
Boards / Systems
System / Integration
348+
Members
35
Countries
70+
ISVs
This is What A Revolution Looks Like © 2018 OpenPOWER Foundation

8. System / Integration
I/O / Storage / Acceleration
Chip / SOC
Boards / Systems
348+
Members
35
Countries
90+
ISVs
This is What A Revolution Looks Like © 2018 OpenPOWER Foundation
Innovation at all
Layers of the
Stack
100k+ Linux Applications
Running on POWER
2500 ISVs Written Code
on Linux

9. 348+
Members
35
Countries
90+
ISVs
This is What A Revolution Looks Like © 2018 OpenPOWER Foundation
Innovation at all
Layers of the
Stack
100k+ Linux Applications
Running on POWER
2500 ISVs Written Code
on Linux
Partners
Bring
Systems
to Market
150+ OpenPOWER Ready
Certified Products
20+ Systems Manufacturers
40+ POWER-based systems
shipping or in development
100+ Collaborative innovations
under way

10. What's Special about OpenPOWER?

11. P7
2010
8 cores
45nm
New Micro-
Architecture
New Process
Technology
P7+
2012
8 cores
32nm
Enhanced
Micro-
Architecture
Enhanced
Process
Technology
POWER7 Architecture
Focus:
Enterprise Technology
+ Performance Driven
Partner P9
2018-20
P8
2014
12 cores
22nm
New Micro-
Architecture
New Process
Technology
P8 NVLink
2016
12 cores
22nm
Enhanced
Micro-
Architecture
w/NVLink
POWER8 Architecture
P9 SO
2017
24 cores
14nm
New Micro-
Architecture
Direct Attach
Memory
New Process
Technology
NVLink2
OpenCAPI
PCIE Gen4
P9 SU
TBD
12 cores
14nm
Enhanced
Micro-
Architecture
Buffered
Memory
NVLink2
OpenCAPI
PCIE Gen4
POWER9 Architecture
10-7nm
Existing Micro-
Architecture
Foundry
Technology
P9 Arch
T
B
D
Focus:
Scale-Out and Enterprise Cost
+ Acceleration Driven
P10
2020+
New Micro-
Architecture
New
Technology
Future
POWER Processor Roadmap
Innovation: Price + Performance + Feature + Ecosystem

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What does this mean for clients?
Customer choice & unique differentiation

13. Who is using OpenPOWER and How?
“We’re declaring this Zaius platform to be Google Strong”
– Máire Mahony, Google

14. Summit: 200-Petaflops System is World’s Most Powerful and
World’s Smartest Supercomputer for Science
• Ranked #1 in Top500 list of commercially
available computers
• Peak of 3.3 ExaOps for data analytics
and artificial intelligence
• Demonstrates the confluence of Big
Data and HPC and AI showcasing real
value
• CORAL is about solving the previously
unsolvable problems of Big Data and
Deep Learning
• Deciphering High-energy Physics Data
• Combating Cancer
• Predicting Fusion Energy
• Identifying Next-generation Materials
• C

15. Sampling of OpenPOWER Members Contributing to Sierra & Summit

16. Who is using OpenPOWER and How?
“With adoption of OpenPOWER the overall
efficiency has improved by more than 30% more
performance @ 30% less rack and server
resources.”
3x
vs x86
Spark Terasort
In recent results running former x86
infrastructure, with 2/3rd fewer servers.
512x SuperMicro POWER8 servers
4
World Records
“OpenPOWER servers are available on the Ali X-Dragon Cloud platform for pilot programs.”
"IBM Power System and PowerAI helped PayPal to accelerate the deep learning research on Fraud
Prevention problems by unlocking the computation power on extra large datasets with the Power
architecture." - PayPal Data Science Team

17. Get Involved

18. Engage in the OpenPOWER Community
Workgroups
Define our technical
direction
Technical
Steering
Committee
Ambassador
Program/
Meetups
Outreach Summits
Marketing
Committee
Showcase Solutions
OpenPOWER
Ready

19. 2018 Events

20. • Products / Solutions May Display Badge
• Participants Request To Use It
• Compatibility
• Not Certification Or Compliance
• OpenPOWER Ready™ List
OpenPOWER Ready Definition and Criteria
- V2 specification available in the Resource
Catalog at:
https://openpowerfoundation.org/?resource_lib=openpower-ready-
definition-criteria-v2-0
Updates include support for:
 POWER9 processors
 PCIe Gen 4 I/O adapters
 New support for CAPI, OpenCAPI, and
CAPI SNAP
 Stronger requirements for Secure and
Trusted Boot
Read more and register your product at:
http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/openpower-ready/

21. © 2016 OpenPOWER Foundation
Backup

22. Who is using OpenPOWER and How?
Uber revealed they intend to push the boundaries of distributed deep learning and make Horovod
successfully scale on extremely large clusters and supercomputers by using the Summit
supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Labs. Horovod is one of Uber’s many AI initiatives, and
machine learning helps the company in everything from identifying fraudulent accounts to better
driver routing and more accurate pricing.
Limelight Networks, who provides clients tools to help stream digital content like music and video,
has embraced OpenPOWER to get around the PCIe Gen3 bottleneck on x86. By using PCIe Gen4
on POWER9, their clients can deliver content to their customers faster and with less buffering.

23. GPU Powered Database
Who is using OpenPOWER and How?
2.8x
vs x86
Kinetica on OpenPOWER
POWER8 with NVLink + NVidia P100 GPUs
compared to x86 + NVidia K80 GPUs
“insights in real time from live data

24. This Ecosystem of Innovators
Creates True Differentiation in
Performance and Cost
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Ecosystem Driven
Customer Choice
Growing Ecosystem Of
OpenPOWER Servers
Growing Ecosystem Of
OpenPOWER Innovation