The OpenPOWER Summit is shaping up to be

great event. We have already added an ISV

Roundtable on Thursday, April 7th and a CAPI/

FPGA Lab on Friday, April 8th.

Stay Tuned as we continue to receive more

requests every day to add more content and

training to improve the benefits of membership.

Please register for the GTC Conference today

and receive a 20% discount by using the discount

code—OPFSUMMIT2016.

Thanks goes out to our great membership as we

have accepted over 65 speaker abstracts from 25

members. We have posted a draft agenda on

the website but we expect to reveal a few

changes that will revolutionize the data center as

we get closer to the conference.

The OpenPOWER Summit 2016 keynote

speakers include:

OpenPOWER Chairman John Zannos will present “Building OpenPOWER

momentum”

OpenPOWER President Calista Redmond will deliver the opening keynote,

“OpenPOWER: Revolution in the Data Center and Ecosystems Solutions.”

Former OpenPOWER Foundation President Brad McCredie will discuss

“OpenPOWER and the Roadmap Ahead”

OpenPOWER Foundation Technical Steering Chair Jeff Brown will share an

update on OpenPOWER’s most recent work group accomplishments, initiatives and next steps

Read the full Press Release

OpenPOWER Summit April 5-8, 2016

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New Members 2

New Solutions 2

Leadership

Corner

3

Technical

Steering

Committee

3

Working &

Academic

Groups

4

Marketing

Committee

4

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O P F S U M M I T :

Call for Solutions

Members if you plan

to announce or re-

veal a new solution

please click on the

link above

ISV Roundtable on

April 7.

RSVP Today

CAPI/FPGA Lab on

April 8.

RSVP Today

N E W S L E T T E R

U P D A T E S

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The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as an open technical membership organization that will

enable data centers to rethink their approach to technology. Member companies are enabled to customize

POWER CPU processors and system platforms for optimization and innovation for their business needs.

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“...the new Power 3.0

architecture defines a

single specification that

can be supported by all

implementations, from

embedded processors to

servers, ensuring

compatibility between

different cores in the

OpenPOWER ecosystem

and back to the original

POWER series

introduced in the 1980’s,

giving users unparalleled

investment protection

for legacy codes…”

Michael Gschwind, IBM

New Solutions

New Members OpenPOWER continues to grow.

We now have a 175+ members.

Please welcome our new members.

Reach out and find new ways to work

together.

All employees of members can regis-

ter and find workgroups and

committees through the Member

Login at the top right of every page by

using their company e-mail.

Current Members List

Brocade Communication

Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing

DRC Computer Corp

Jed Deame

Prophet Electronic Technology Corp

University of California San Diego

How can I join?

Announcing a New Era of Openness with Power 3.0—Click Here for Complete Story

By Michael Gschwind, Chief Architect & Senior Manager, Power System Architecture, IBM

I am excited to announce the availability of the next generation of the Power Architecture,

ushering in a new era for systems.

The new Power Instruction Set Architecture 3.0 (Power ISA 3.0) marks the first generation of

architecture developed and released since the creation of the OpenPOWER Foundation, building upon and sustaining the growth of the Foundation’s open ecosystem of collaborative

innovation. The Power ISA 3.0 architecture reflects the values of our open ecosystem, en-

hancing the platform by continuing the evolution of the RISC ISA concepts pioneered by the Power Architecture to deliver high-performance scalable systems optimized around workload needs. The new architecture specification include enhancements such as:

Improved support for string and memory block operations with the vector string facility

Expanded little-endian support

Instruction fusion and PC-relative addressing in support of improved application portability

Hardware garbage collection acceleration

Enhanced in-memory database support

Interrupt and system call enhancements

Hardware support for the native Linux radix page table format

O P E N P O W E R

http://openpowerfoundation.org/

Leadership Corner

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OpenPOWER Summit 2016: Vive la Re volution!

By Calista Redmond, President,

OpenPOWER Foundation

Over four event-filled days, you’ll be learning all about the OpenPOWER community, from inventors to consumers, and how we collaborate to drive the highest-performing platform in our industry.

Hear from vendors like Mellanox, NVIDIA, Tyan, Nallatech, and IBM on their latest hardware innovations. See how MSPs like Rackspace, Arrow ECS, and Redis Labs are bringing OpenPOWER into the cloud. Get hands on with Canonical and Ubuntu to experience how OpenPOWER is

built upon the leading open source operating system, Linux, and how we’re embrace and practicing the ideals of open source.

And of course, grab a drink from our famous OpenPOWER Ice Bar!

The vision of OpenPOWER Foundation includes key tools and resources to build upon

the POWER architecture. In addition to the Foundation’s deliverables, members of the

community are already developing OpenPOWER solutions that support our vision.

Please click below, to learn more about our tools and resources:

Development Environment/VM

Development Systems

Technical Specifications

Software

Developer Tools

Technical Steering Committee

2016 OPF

Priorities

Tackle system bottlenecks through collaboration on memory bandwidth, acceleration, and interconnect advances. Grow workloads and software community optimizing on OpenPOWER.

Further

OpenPOWER’s

validation

through

adoption

conveyed via

member and end

user testimonials,

benchmarking,

and industry

Influencer

reports.

http://openpowerfoundation.org/

Running Spark GPU

applications on

OpenPower with Smart

Scheduling of IBM

Platform

Learn more click here

during the reviews and selection pro-

cess. But even with an agency we still

need your experience to improve how

the foundation goes to market.

Developer Resource Ecosystem. If you

haven’t seen our new Developer

Ecosystem we urge you to do so. And

if you are interested in adding your

developer

resources

please send an

e-mail to Sam

Ponedal

The OpenPOWER Foundation is

Revolutionizing the Datacenter. We

ask that if you have a Marketing or Sales

role that you join us each month for the

Marketing Committee meeting. To

receive meeting notices and updates

you must join the Marketing Commit-

tee. You can do this by visiting the

Member Login at the top right of every

page of the OpenPOWER Foundation

website.

The votes are in and shortly we will

announce our agency of record. Thank

you to all the members that helped

OPF in the News / Events

There are over 50 News and

Events updates since the

Feb. Newsletter. Please

visit our News / Events Page

Press Contact

“Quote of the Day” "It appears that IBM’s Power sys-

tem, which had been largely written

off, is back from the dead and Biggish

Blue’s attempt to resurrect it might

have paid off."

-- Fudzilla

Currently there are 11 approved

workgroups. If you have yet to share your

experience and knowledge we ask that you

find a workgroup that peeks your interest

and one where you feel you can most help

the foundation. Join today by logging in

using your company e-mail or registration

e-mail. Member Login

25G IO Interoperability Mode WG

Accelerator WG

Application Software

Compliance

Hardware Architecture

Integrated Solutions WG

IO Work Group (OPIO WG)

Memory WG

Open Server Development Platform

System Software

FSI (Full Service Interface) WG

Marketing Committee

Working Groups Academia Discussion Group

Webinar Replays

01/2016 - UCX: An Open Source OpenPOWER ADG:

Framework for HPC Network APIs

******* CALL FOR PAPERS *********

International Workshop on OpenPOWER for HPC

(IWOPH'16)

June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany

Papers submissions due by April 3, 2016

This workshop will take place within the ISC High

Performance conference 2016. It is intended to pro-

vide a venue for the broader HPC community to

Further understand OpenPOWER technologies and

discuss how they can be harnessed for HPC.

Academia Discussion

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