IBM's OpenPOWER Processor Center of Excellence aims to enhance artificial intelligence applications through collaboration with universities and industries. The center focuses on cross-disciplinary research, fostering industry-academia partnerships, and developing advanced processor technologies. Key activities include workshops, seminars, and the development of open-source projects to enable student involvement in cutting-edge research.

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Processor
Center of
Excellence/Lab
by IBM

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IBM is leading the way
IBM is teaming with universities, startups,
ISV’s and industries to help develop further
the impact of artificial intelligence for
solutions for real-world opportunities

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Background and Motivation
The OpenPOWER Processor Lab will play a major role in the
research and development commercial and industrial
development of emerging applications
There is a strong need for research and development activity
in these domains:
– Encouraging academic-industry partnerships
– Cross-disciplinary and collaborative research
– Enabling faculty-technologist interaction and learning
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Technologies
and Partners
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CoE Charter and Objectives
1. Conduct research on rapidly advancing Processor features technologies
2. Enable and facilitate industry-academia partnerships in research and
development, and foster relationships through collaborative projects
3. Encourage cross-disciplinary research in applied computing, in critical
scientific and industrial domains, via research proposal submissions to
funding agencies

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OpenPOWER Processor Lab
Open Power Architecture
Overview
Microwatt FPGA Soft CPU
Core
Mambo simulator experience
Powering up Gem 5
Power 9 Architecture
Curriculum with some use
cases

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OpenPOWER Processor Lab Activities
Boot Camp
Workshops
Seminars
WebEx Presentations

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2 Year Developmental Timeline
a) IBM POWER Academic Initiative
partnership
b) OpenPOWER systems access
c) Technical Projects deployment
d) Review of progress in technical
projects, lab coursework
e) Power Processor Curriculum

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Advantages for Your Faculty and
Students
 Talent and Skills: (Remote Interns; Skills and Training)
Students and Research scholars will start working on the
advanced technologies will enable them to work on
many applications
Publications and Mindshare: (Press releases, Articles,
and Publications; Conferences and Events)
1. Conference Paper on software-based application
research /development in 6 months
 Intellectual Capital: (Patents, Open source; Prototypes,
Demos; Curriculum; Student projects, Theses)
1. Prototype building of many research problems using
software-centric approach (hardware-centric baseline
implementation almost getting completed)
2. Potential to file disclosures
 Opportunities: (Seed revenue; Leverage other funding;
Build ecosystems; Build government/client relationships)
1. Once software-centric solution available with
comparable performance using latest technologies ,
your team would create prototypes which can be
demonstrated to several colleges

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Live Project work
 OpenPower ISA is open sourced
 Develop OpenPower reference core(FPGA implementation and Software eco system )
 Here is the Open ISA reference ;
https://ibm.ent.box.com/s/1hzcwkwf8rbju5h9iyf44wm94amnlcrv
 Functional Simulator
https://openpowerfoundation.org/introducing-ibm-power9-functional-simulator/
 Tool kit link
https://developer.ibm.com/linuxonpower/sdk/
 IBM Power Functional Simulator
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/pwrfs/pwr9/home.html
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Project work 2
• Chiselwatt , an OpenPOWER
processor running on the ULX3S
FPGA
• https://github.com/antonblanch
ard/chiselwatt
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Ganesan Narayanasamy
ganesana@in.ibm.com
OpenPOWER leader in
Education and Research WW
IBM Systems
Thank
you!