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OpenPOWER Foundation
An update
Mandie Quartly
Linux on Power technical lead UK&I
mandie_quartly@uk.ibm.com
Twitter: @mandieq
020 8818 5283
#LoPnow

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Moore's Law meets the law of physics
“Moore's law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of
transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.” Wikipedia

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For almost 5 decades we have relied on exponential technology change
If cars were like chips:
1970 − 15 mpg
1980 − 1,500 mpg
1990 − 150,000 mpg
2000 − 15 Million mpg
2010 − 150 Million mpg
2020 − 1 Billion mpg
...

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And at the same time.. an emerging data challenge
1990’s 2020’s
Exa
Peta
Tera
Giga
2000’s 2010’s
Med
High
Low
ComputationalNeeds
SophisticationofAnalysis
Expressiveness

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• Moore’s law no longer
satisfies performance
gain
• Growing workload
demands
• Numerous IT
consumption models
• Mature Open software
ecosystem
• Rich software
ecosystem
• Spectrum of power
servers
• Multiple hardware
options
• Derivative POWER
chips
OpenPOWER is an open development community,
using the POWER Architecture to serve the evolving needs of customers.
Performance of POWER
architecture
amplified capability
Open Development
open software, open hardware
Collaboration of thought
leaders
simultaneous innovation,
multiple disciplines
Feeds back … resulting in
client choice
OpenPOWER, a catalyst for Open Innovation

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The road
ahead
August
Announced
intent to form
OpenPOWER
December
Incorporated
Foundation and
elected officers;
5 members
April
Public launch in San
Francisco and Beijing with
6 demos and first
hardware from Google and
Tyan
26 members
July
IBM, with
contributions from
Google, released
420,000 lines of
firmware code
44 members
October
Multiple offerings
available from Altera,
Canonical, IBM,
NVIDIA, OVH, Redis
Labs, and Tyan
70 members
October
China government
endorsed OpenPOWER
ecosystem through
formation of the China
Power Technology
Alliance
• Collaborative solutions, standards, and reference designs available
• Independent members solutions and systems
• Sector growth in technical computing and cloud
• Global growth with increasing depth in all layers
• Broad adoption across hardware, software, and end users
November
Department of Energy chose
OpenPOWER design for $325M
supercomputing contract;
Nallatech CAPI developer kit
released
77 members
2013 2014
December
Rackspace declares
Open Compute,
OpenPOWER strategy;
Seven work groups
chartered
84 members
March
First OpenPOWER Summit
•50+ member presentations
and solution demos
•15 hardware reveals
•100+ member projects
112 members
March
SoftLayer
announces first
OpenPOWER
bare metal as a
service offering
2015
Amazing member engagement with incredible progress
May
Chartered nine work groups,
major HPC deals to be
announced; Member
solutions promoted at 6k
attendee Edge event,
announced systems now
available
130 members
June
£313m collaboration
announced with STFC in UK;
China Cloud Computing
Conference, 13K attending
First China OpenPOWER
Summit , 500+ attendees
130+ members

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What a difference a year makes...

8. Fueling an Open Development Community

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So what?
What difference does it make?

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OpenPOWER Summit Hardware Announcement - March 2015
More details available at http://openpowersummit2015.tumblr.com/factsheet
Chuanghe 1S / 1U POWER8 server
Collaborators: Chuanghe
Cirrascale RM4950
Collaborators: Cirrascale, NVIDIA
Virtex 7 CAPI-based Adapter Kit
Collaborators: Convey, Xilinx
TYAN TN71-BP012
Collaborators: Tyan, Mellanox
IBM Memory Technology Innovation Utilizing
Altera FPGAs
Collaborators: IBM, Altera
IBM 2U/2S POWER8 / NVIDIA GPU Server “Firestone”
Collaborators: IBM, Wistron,
NVIDIA, Mellanox
Inspur 2S / 2U server
Collaborators: Inspur
Mellanox ConnectX-4 CAPI-adapter
Collaborators: Mellanox
Open server specification and Open Compute
motherboard mock-up
Collaborators: Rackspace
Suzhou PowerCore CP1 mechanical sample
Collaborators: POWERCORE
Zoom 2S / 2U POWER8 System Planar &
Memory Riser
Collaborators: Zoom Netcom, Byosoft, Unisource

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Happening today! OpenPOWER Summit China
● SuperVessel: https://ptopenlab.com/cloudlabconsole/index.html
– R&D environment for Open Source community, professors and
students – already expanded to 30 universities in 6 months
– FGPA and GPU accelerators, built with OpenStack
– Create, test and pilot applications on POWER architecture
● Alpha Data and fellow OpenPOWER member Xilinx announce
acceleration development kit
● Suzhou PowerCore announce general availability of CP1, the first
derivative POWER chip
● Zoom Netcom formally introduce RedPOWER, incorporating
PowerCore's CP1 processor and China's first two socket "all domestic
made" server.
● Tyan’s previously sold out GN70-BP010 OpenPOWER customer
reference systems are available for immediate shipment.
● Plus! Last week - IBM joined China’s Open Data Center Committee
(ODCC), a consortium in China creating new server specifications for
hyperscale China data centers

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8x faster than x86 Ivy
Bridge on pattern extraction
10x faster text
search than CPU only
NVIDIA acceleration + IBM Power Systems

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Load Balancer
500GB Cache
Node
10Gb Uplink
POWER8 Server
Flash Array w/ up
to 40TB
After: NoSQL POWER8 + CAPI Flash
WWW
10Gb Uplink
WWW
Backup Nodes
500GB Cache
Node500GB Cache
Node500GB Cache
Node500GB Cache
Node
Before: NoSQL in memory (x86)
24U 4U
Less is More
24:1 physical server consolidation =
6x less rack space
24:1
server consolidation
3x
lower cost per user
IBM Data Engine for NoSQL

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IBM, Mellanox, and NVIDIA awarded $325M U.S. Department of Energy’s Super Computer bids
Two supercomputers for Oak Ridge and
Lawrence Livermore Labs in 2017. Sequoia (LLNL)
2012 - 2017
Mira (ANL)
2012 - 2017
Titan (ORNL)
2012 - 2017
Current DOE Leadership Computers
5x – 10x Higher Application Performance versus Current Systems
>100 PF, 2 GB/core main memory, local NVRAM,
Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand,
IBM POWER CPUs, NVIDIA Tesla GPUs

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https://www.stfc.ac.uk/3583.aspx
£313 million collaboration to boost Big Data research in the UK
The research programme will use OpenPOWER high performance computing
innovations to enable complex analytics on massive amounts of data.
IBM contributions
• Latest data-centric and cognitive computing technologies,
including ‘Watson’ cognitive computing platform
• 24 IBM researchers to be based at the Hartree Centre
• Joint commercialisation of intellectual property produced in
partnership with STFC

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The sky is the limit...

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The level of support behind the OpenPOWER Foundation
leads me to believe that IBM has a real chance at
ending Intel's server chip monopoly.” [IBM is the real
threat to Intel’s server dominance, Motley Fool] “http://www.rackspace.com/blog/openpower-opening-th
e-stack-all-the-way-down/
Both the current results and future potential are so promising
that we are preparing to build an OpenPOWER-based, Open
Compute platform. And it will run OpenStack services.
Up to 100x the power
of a classic x86 setup
“
The new systems incorporate technologies from IBM and
other providers that are part of OpenPOWER…which
allow you to achieve unprecedented computing
performance. [Cloud Times]
http://labs.runabove.com/power8/
… doubling the performance of its already powerful predecessor,
Power7+. The POWER8 specs are mind boggling.
[Microprocessor report]
“
IBM’s huge advantages in multithreading and memory
bandwidth favor POWER8 when running larger test suites
that more closely reflect real-world enterprise applications.
http://www.linleygroup.com/newsletter
s/newsletter_detail.php?num=5275
Data-centric supercomputers based on POWER for
Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Labs &
Lawrence Livermore to advance innovation
and discovery in science, engineering and
national defense in $325M deal
“
“
“
“
“People ask me if we would switch to Power, and the
answer is absolutely,” Urs Hölzle, Google, said
emphatically and unequivocally. “Even for a single
generation.” [The Platform]
“
What is the market saying?

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Reference
Material

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Membership
Level
Annual Fee
$ USD
FTEs Technical Steering Committee Board / Voting position
Platinum $100k 10 One seat per member not otherwise
represented
Includes board position
Includes TSC position
Gold $60k 3 May be on TSC if
Work group lead
Gold members may elect one board
representative per three gold members
Silver $20k
$5k if <300 employees
0 May be on TSC if
Work group lead
Sliver members may elect one board
representative for all silver members
Associate &
Academic
$0 0 May be on TSC if
Work group lead
May be elected to one community
observer, non-voting Board seat
 The OpenPOWER Foundation is a Not-for-profit entity with a Board of Directors and a Technical Steering Committee.
• Membership levels provide either a default Board of Director position (Platinum) or an opportunity to be elected to the Board (Gold,
Silver, and Assoc/Academic members). The Bylaws include additional governance detail.
• Technical Steering Committee is formed from Work group Leads and Platinum members.
 Membership options include Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Associate / Academic memberships
• Annual fee and dedicated full-time equivalent (FTEs) - verification of FTEs on honor system
• Contributors, committers, Work group leads and project leads influence Technical Steering Committee
• Associate / Academic level is not available to corporations
Membership agreement, Bylaws, and IP Rights Policy available for review
www.openpowerfoundation.org
Anyone may participate in OpenPOWER. Membership levels are designed for those that are investing to grow and enhance the
OpenPOWER community and its proliferation within the industry.
Membership Options

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Engage in the OpenPOWER communityACTIONACTIONOUTCOMEOUTCOMEINTERESINTERES
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Technology and Software
Innovators
Discuss areas of
collaboration and synergy in
OpenPOWER.
Sign up for membership and
join a work group.
Build technical and business
relationships.
Develop
collaborative innovations
with compelling value
Innovators, Integrators,
and Partners
Deep understanding of
workload demands and
consumption preferences of
end users.
Team with innovators and
end users to drive
requirements, engage in
specific projects.
Deliver
collaborative innovations
with compelling value
End Users
Strategic imperatives and
workload demands for
performance and cost
optimization.
Require open software and
systems with choice and
flexibility.
Engage directly on system
design options.
Deploy
collaborative innovations
with compelling value

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OpenPOWER Work Group Roadmap
2014 2015 2016
Developer Platform
System SW
HW Architecture
Accelerator
Compliance
Proposed
Work Groups Integrated Solutions
Pers Med
SP010 – Tyan OpenPOWER Customer Reference System
CAPI – Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface
ABI – Application Binary Interface
AFU – Accelerator Function Unit
FSI – Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) Service Interface
SDK – Software Developer Kit
25g IO Compatibility
FSI Spec
Memory
OpenPOWER I/O
Work Group
Charter
Compliance Specification
Draft Review WG Spec
Comp
STD
Charter
OpenPOWER ISA Profile V1
IO Device Architecture V2
Coherent Accel Intf Arch
OpenPOWER ISA Profile V2
IO Device Architecture V3
Coherent Accel Intf Arch
Charter P8 SP010
Data
P8 2U2S
Reference
P8+ 1U1S
Reference
P8+ 2U2S
Reference
OPMB Intf. Spec V1Charter
Charter CAPI AFU Intf Spec V1
OpenCL SDK
CAPI AFU Intf Spec V2
Charter
CAPI Linux
SDK 64b ABI
Platform Ref
Sys I/O Enablement GuideCharter
Charter 25g IO Spec
OPMB – OpenPOWER Memory Bus

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Monte Carlo
250x faster
than POWER8 core alone, reduced C code 40x over non-CAPI FPGA
Altera FPGA acceleration and IBM CAPI

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Best-in-class ingredients • IBM POWER8
• IBM Java
• NVIDIA CUDA GPU acceleration
• Ubuntu Little Endian Linux for POWER
8x performance
improvement
GPU acceleration for Java on
segmentation using accelerated machine learning
for clustering with Hadoop / Mahout

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• Accelerated appliance with novel data-flow implementation of Memcached on
FPGA.
• Up to 36x improved performance and power response times in microsecond range.
• CAPI integration of memory allows both host memory and coherent-attached flash
to be used as value store.
Up to 36x performance
improvement
for Key-Value Store acceleration

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Superior Cloud
Economics
New: SoftLayer Bare Metal POWER cloud
New: Rackspace joins OpenPOWER, declares
Open Compute OpenPOWER system
New: Docker for Power Systems
Update: OpenStack HEAT and Chef Server for Power
New: Bluemix Cloud Integration and SQLDB Services
with Power Systems for SOE/SOR integration
http://labs.runabove.com/power8/
Up to 100x
the power of a classic x86 setup

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• Support for little endian applications
• PoCs available through the Power Development Platform
• 50 IBM Innovation Centers and Client Centers Worldwide
Over 1,400 Linux ISVs
developing on Power

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Critical workloads run on Linux on Power
• Compute intensive
• High memory bandwidth
• Floating point
• High I/O rates
• High quality of service
• Scalability
• Flexible infrastructure
• Large memory footprint
Business Applications
• Highly threaded
• Throughput oriented
• Scale out capable
• High quality of service
Web, Java Apps and Infrastructure
• Handle peak workloads
• Scalability
• High quality of service
• Resiliency and security
HPC applications for
Life Sciences
Database
Analytics & Research

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10x higher throughput, 10x lower latency
accelerating NoSQL workloads
with high speed RDMA networking
PHP (Zend)PHP (Zend)
PHP (Zend)PHP (Zend)
Linux (Ubuntu)Linux (Ubuntu)
Apache Web Server (Ubuntu)Apache Web Server (Ubuntu) MariaDB (MariaDB)MariaDB (MariaDB)
PHP (Zend)PHP (Zend)
Orchestration-Juju
(Ubuntu)
Orchestration-Juju
(Ubuntu)
High Speed Data Transfer (Mellanox)High Speed Data Transfer (Mellanox)
Turbo LAMP Stack for mobile and web apps
Future
TurboLAMP
Dramatically less data center infrastructure
Dramatically faster responsiveness to customers