Open AND High Performance Computing
summary
OpenPOWER describes concrete hardware and software wins: Power9 on 14nm, up to 4GHz, 22 cores/socket with 4 threads/core, systems shipping with fully open BMC/firmware and PCIe/NVLink or OpenCAPI accelerators, and Google/Rackspace’s open Barreleye rack design. IBM releases the POWER ISA royalty-free and offers patent licenses for compliant implementations. Small projects matter too: Microwatt 64-bit FPGA running MicroPython proves an open softcore, while Summit and Sierra are #1 and #2 supercomputers running these stacks.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and history
- 2:04The era of open software
- 3:40The rise of open hardware
- 5:44Trust issues in hardware
- 8:03History of PowerPC
- 12:24OpenPOWER architecture
- 16:04Software and firmware
- 18:22OpenPOWER systems in use
- 23:19Future hardware projects
- 25:00Opening the ISA
- 28:14FPGA and microwatt
- 30:33Conclusion and future
- 35:24Q&A session
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