This document summarizes an OpenPOWER and AI Meetup. It includes the agenda which focuses on the OpenPOWER foundation, ecosystem, and CORAL supercomputers Summit and Sierra. It also discusses the growing academic membership in OpenPOWER including over 100 members from universities around the world. The goals of the Academia Discussion Group are outlined as providing training, networking opportunities, engagement of the HPC community, and enabling co-design activities to support academic collaboration.

1. OpenPOWER and AI Meetup
Ganesan Narayanasamy
IBM

2. Welcome you all for the AI and OpenPOWER Meetup
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OpenPOWER Academia and Research Ecosystems Youtube
Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYLtbUp0AH0ZAv5mNut1Kcg

3. Today’s Agenda
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4. Founding Members
in 2013
The OpenPOWER Foundation is a collaboration around Power Architecture
products founded by 5 companies in 2015
IBM opened up the technologies surrounding Power Architecture offerings, such
as processor specifications, firmware and software

5. Ecosystem

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

7. Software
Boards /
Systems
System / Integration
I/O / Storage / Acceleration
Implementation / HPC / Research
Chip / SOC
This is What A Revolution Looks Like © 2017 OpenPOWER
Foundation
328+
Members
33
Countri
es
70+
ISVs

8. Chip / SOC
This is What A Revolution Looks Like © 2017 OpenPOWER
Foundation
I/O / Storage / Acceleration
Implementation / HPC / Research
Boards /
Systems
System / Integration
Software
328+
Members
33
Countri
es
70+
ISVs
Active Membership
From All
Layers of the
Stack
100k+ Linux Applications
Running on Power
2300 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. OpenPOWER in Action
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11. What is CORAL?
The program through which Summit & Sierra are procured.
 Several DOE labs have strong supercomputing programs and facilities.
 To bring the next generation of leading supercomputers to these labs, DOE
created CORAL (the Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Livermore) to
jointly procure these systems, and in so doing, align strategy and resources
across the DOE enterprise.
 Collaboration grouping of DOE labs was done based on common acquisition
timings. Collaboration is a win-win for all parties.
“Summit” System “Sierra” System
OpenPOWER Technologies: IBM POWER CPUs, NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, Mellanox EDR 1
Paving The Road to Exascale Performance

12. Academic Membership
 Currently about 100+ academic members in OPF
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A*STAR ASU ASTRI Moscow State
University
Carnegie Mellon Univ.
CDAC Colorado School of
Mines
CINECA CFMS Coimbatore Institute of
Technology
Dalian University of
Technology
GSIC Hartree Centre ICM IIIT Bangalore
IIT Bombay Indian Institute for
Technology Roorkee
ICCS INAF FZ Jülich
LSU BSC Nanyang
Technological
University
National University of
Singapore
NIT Mangalore
NIT Warangal Northeastern
University in China
ORNL OSU RICE
Rome HPC Center LLNL SANDIA SASTRA University Seoul National
University
Shanghai Shao Tong
University
SICSR TEES Tohoku University Tsinghua University
University of Arkansas SDSC Unicamp University of Central
Florida
University of Florida
University of Hawai University of
Hyderabad
University of Illinois University of Michigan University of Oregon
University of Patras University of Southern
California
TACC Waseda University IISc ,Loyola,IIT
Roorkee

13. Goals of the Academia Discussion Group
 Provide training and exchange of experience and know-how
 Provide platform for networking among academic members
 Work on engagement of HPC community
 Enable co-design/development activities
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14. Conclusions
 Growing number of academic organizations have become member of the
OpenPOWER Foundation
 The Academia Discussion Groups provides a platform for training,
networking, engagement and enablement of co-design
 Those who have not yet joined:
You are welcome to join
https://members.openpowerfoundation.org/wg/AcademiaDG/mail/index
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15. THANK YOU!