IBM (NYSE:IBM) co-founded
OpenPOWER, which open-sourced reference designs and firmware for systems powered by its Power CPUs, back in 2013.
Endorses move of
OpenPOWER to The Linux Foundation to Expand Innovation Ecosystem
"We believe the combination of low-profile form-factor, HBM2 memory performance, and PCIe Gen 4 speed to interface with IBM Power processors will enable the
OpenPOWER ecosystem to provide cutting edge adaptable acceleration solutions."
To move forward on this project, Rambus announced it has joined the OpenCAPI Consortium, an open development community based on Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface technology, and
OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community based on the IBM Power Architecture.
IBM serves as a catalyst for innovation to thrive, fueling an open, fast-growing community of more than 300
OpenPOWER Foundation and OpenCAPI Consortium members
Designed to deliver efficiency whether deployed in a private, public and hybrid cloud, Power Systems benefit from a wide range of open technologies, many stemming from collaboration with fellow
OpenPOWER Foundation members.
The Talos II product line is first to market with IBM's 14nm POWER9 processor, built on
OpenPOWER technology.
IBM has collaborated with fellow technology industry leaders through the
OpenPOWER Foundation to radically redesign the platform at the chip and system levels by incorporating the use of a wide range of accelerators to achieve greater levels of performance than available on traditional commodity servers.
In addition, there continues to be growing support for the
OpenPOWER Foundation.
The Power Systems S822L servers benefit directly from innovations co-developed by members of the
OpenPOWER Foundation -- a 150-member global organization of leading technology suppliers and users supporting and contributing to open development on top of POWER's open architecture.
Systems based on POWER CPUs dramatically accelerate technical computing and data analytics workloads, said Sumit Gupta, vice president and business line executive, IBM High Performance Computing and
OpenPOWER operations.