Widespread Adoption of OpenPOWER Technology Across Europe for Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and World-Advancing Research including the Human Brain Project; Developer Momentum Continues with European OpenPOWER Developer Cloud, CAPI SNAP Framework Tool, OpenPOWER READY Accelerator Boards and Winners of Developer Challenge Revealed; European OpenPOWER Community Grows to 60 Members Strong
BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - Oct 27, 2016) - At the inaugural OpenPOWER European Summit, the OpenPOWER Foundation made a series of announcements today detailing the rapid growth, adoption and support of OpenPOWER across the continent. Members announced:
The OpenPOWER Foundation is a global technology development community with more than 270 members worldwide supporting new product design, development and implementation on top of the high performing, open POWER processor. Many of the OpenPOWER-based technologies developed by OpenPOWER members in Europe are being used to help meet the unique needs of corporations running some of the largest data centers in the world and by researchers exploring high performance computing solutions to help solve some of the world's greatest challenges.
"Data growth in virtually every industry is forcing companies and organizations to change the way they consume, innovate around and manage IT infrastructure," said Calista Redmond, President of the OpenPOWER Foundation. "Commodity platforms are proving ineffective when it comes to ingesting and making sense of the 2.5 billion GBs of data being created daily. With today's announcements by our European members, the OpenPOWER Foundation expands its reach, bringing open source, high performing, flexible and scalable solutions to organizations worldwide."
New OpenPOWER Deployments and Offerings in Europe
At the Summit, European technology leaders announced important deployments, offerings and research collaborations involving OpenPOWER-based technology. They include:
These deployments come as OpenPOWER innovations around accelerated computing, storage, and networking via the high-speed interfaces of NVIDIA NVLink and the newly formed open standard OpenCAPI, gain adoption in the datacenter.
Developer Momentum
To further support a growing demand for OpenPOWER developer resources in Europe and worldwide, OpenPOWER members announced:
Expanded European Ecosystem
Across Europe, technology leaders continue to join the OpenPOWER Foundation, bringing the European roster to a total of 60 members today. Increased membership drives further innovation in areas like acceleration, networking, storage and software all optimized for the OpenPOWER platform. Some of the most recent European members to bring their expertise to the broader OpenPOWER ecosystem in 2016 include:
About the OpenPOWER Foundation
The OpenPOWER Foundation is a global, open development membership organization formed to facilitate and inspire collaborative innovation on the POWER architecture. OpenPOWER members share expertise, investment and server-class intellectual property to develop solutions that serve the evolving needs of technology customers.
The OpenPOWER Foundation enables members to customize POWER CPU processors, system platforms, firmware and middleware software for optimization for their business and organizational needs. Member innovations delivered and under development include custom systems for large scale data centers, workload acceleration through GPU, FPGA or advanced I/O, and platform optimization for software appliances, or advanced hardware technology exploitation.
For further details visit www.openpowerfoundation.org.
Supporting Quotes from OpenPOWER Foundation European Members
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
"We feel honored to become a member of the OpenPOWER Foundation," said Mateo Valero, Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. "Working closely with the OpenPOWER community will give us the opportunity to collaborate with other leading institutions in high performance architectures, programming models and applications."
Cognitive Technologies
"We see OpenPOWER technology and innovation as key enablers for our Autonomous Driving technology and Neural Network capability," said Andrey Chernogorov, CEO of Cognitive Technologies, an active driver assistance systems developer. "We believe that our major competitive advantage is the robust artificial intelligence that our system is based on. It makes it possible for the autonomous vehicle control system to firmly operate in bad weather conditions and on bad or damaged roads with no road marking. Since over 70% of the roads in the world can be considered as 'bad' we plan to become a global market leader. At the moment our major competitor is the Israeli developer Mobileye."
Jülich Supercomputing Centre
"For a leading provider of computing resources for science, OpenPOWER is an exciting opportunity to create future supercomputing infrastructure and enable new science," said Dr. Dirk Pleiter, Research Group Leader, Jülich Supercomputing Centre.
SC3
"Having seen foremost Internet giants starting up the OpenPOWER Foundation even before the vast wide and deep global hardware (including CPU, GPU, Memory, NVM, Networking, FPGA, ODM's) community, software (OS and Applications) providers and services industry, as well as academic and scientific who's who institutions, become a truly impressive ecosystem, convinced us to join and and contribute to this great organization with high enthusiasm," said SC3 Executive Vice President Emre Bilgi. "After a global search of over two years for our supercomputing architecture, we see great opportunities in the OpenPOWER Foundation today and in the future."
ThinkParQ
"It is very important for our customers that BeeGFS delivers highest I/O performance and takes full advantage of the latest technologies," said ThinkParQ CEO Sven Breuner. "The OpenPOWER platform comes with outstanding performance features and has a very promising roadmap, which make it an ideal basis for such demanding applications."