OpenPOWER Foundation Introduction
- 1. OpenPOWER Foundation Community Intro James Kulina, Executive Director @jameskulina @OpenPOWERorg
- 2. James Kulina - OPF, Executive Director • Background in Open Source • Previously co-founded OSS cloud startup Hyper.sh – Focused on container security – Creator of Kata Container Project – Worked extensively with CNCF, Google Kubernetes, Docker • Former Red Hat working in Product group • Former AT&T focused on OpenStack Telco Cloud OpenPOWER Leadership
- 3. 350+ Global Members Who 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 ISA in 2019
- 4. Why Open Hardware? Why Now? Industry Consolidation: Diversify supply chain risk Domestic Tech Innovation : Nations wants to own tech destiny. Domain specific Computing: Performance gains will come from fundamental innovation in SoC IC Packaging reuse: Open chiplet interconnect
- 5. Why OpenPOWER? Fully Open POWER ISA: Open royalty free POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), inclusive of patent rights. Open Designs: Open high performance RTL A2I/ A2O and MicroWatt softcore implementation of the POWER ISA Open Governance: OpenPOWER Foundation part of the Linux Foundation Fully Supported Software Ecosystem: Major software ecosystems already work on POWER Channel Ecosystem: Partnerships opportunities for GTM Established performance benchmarks: Highest performing fully open HW platform
- 6. Value creation for our members Technical Deliverables ● Manage and progress deliverables through WGs ● Administer and create new WGs based on community needs Compliance/Verification ● Manage Compliance test suite ● Develop Verification formal service Learning Development ● Connect Universities and industry in developing curriculum ● Online forums and events Outreach ● Establishing Ambassador program ● Connect domain specific experts Visibility ● Engage in industry events and host our own ● Drive variety of member content through various channels social media, analysts, forums
- 7. 5G HPC Infra Storage Network HPC Cloud/ Edge Storage AI AI Where are we going? Auto Auto IoT IIoT Current use cases for OP ...Future use cases for OP
- 8. Engage in the OpenPOWER Community Workgroups Define our technical direction Technical Steering Committee Meetups Outreach Summits Marketing Committee Showcase Solutions OpenPOWER Ready 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