Cineca 2021 open power
- 1. James Kulina, Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation @jameskulina
- 2. 350+ Global Members What is the Foundation 2013 Launched OpenPOWER Foundation is a non-profit serving its member companies and the open hardware industry Mission: To accelerate adoption of OpenPOWER ISA and open technology at large. - To drive technology innovation through specifications, compliance tests, and product SIGs - To grow overall ecosystem and members - To facilitate community engagement and visibility Fully open sourced POWER ISA in 2019
- 3. The POWER architecture continues to play a significant role in HPC domain. OpenPOWER’s fully open source ISA provides a proven, flexible, and community driven choice to develop the next innovation for HPC hardware and software
- 4. Leading Supercomputers based on POWER POWER well represented in supercomputers with multiple systems in top 500: #2 Summit #3 Sierra #11 CINECA #17 Lassen #18 Pangea III #29 AiMOS
- 5. Use Cases for OpenPOWER in HPC
- 6. OpenPOWER Foundation Workgroups HPC ● NEW WG ● Cross-cutting accelerator, memory, software, and ISA WGs ISA ● Oversees evolution of POWER ISA, while preserving compatibility and verification process ● Instruction Compliance sub-sets ○ Provides flexibility for targeted use cases ● Enable new POWER based cpus targeting IIoT, Edge, DC, HPC, AI/ML Accelerator ● Focus on interconnects and offload ● Collaborate with OpenCAPI and OMI Software Enablement ● Goal of making POWER first class citizen across essential software ● Spanning HPC, Cloud native, programming languages, AI/ML
- 7. Software is the key enabler ● OpenPOWER has mature software ecosystem ● HPC software deployment made simpler through containerization ● OPF HUB - Easily gain access to POWER systems try out popular HPC suites Cloud-native co-exist with HPC ○ Kube-Batch open source batch scheduler for Kubernetes ○ Orchestrator + HPC scheduler - Kubernetes integrates with IBM Spectrum
- 8. CPU to Accelerator interconnect AI major driver for interconnect technologies ● OpenPOWER has been a leader in this space with the integration of OpenCAPI 25Gb/s interconnects to GPGPUs. The foundation is committed to open technologies like OpenCAPI. We continue to collaborate and investigate new use cases. +
- 9. A great starting point!
- 10. Get in Touch ED: James Kulina ed@openpowerfoundation.org TSC Chair: Toshaan Bharvani tsc-chair@openpowerfoundation.org Marketing Committee: Dina Chikunova marketing@openpowerfoundation.org Academic: Ganesan Narayanasamy adg-events@openpowerfoundation.org Social Media: Jim Mignano social@openpowerfoundation.org @OpenPOWERorg
- 11. Thank you!