POWER your Cloud
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Open Source Hardware for cloud servers that exposes processor specs, firmware and management controllers and can replace commodity x86 racks. The talk shows OpenPOWER/CXL as a fully open instruction set lineage (IBM → foundation), points to opal/petitboot firmware on GitHub, and describes OpenBMC and Libra BMC where an FPGA BMC gives full hardware control. One host runs ~1024 VMs, containers reach much higher density, and a MariaDB cluster hit 1.5 billion transactions/sec.
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