OpenPOWER Summit North America 2019
2019-08-19..2019-08-20
San Diego, United States
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| ExpEther - Providing IO Distributed System | Gursimranjit Singh | 39m |
Presented by Gursimranjit Singh, NEC Corporation of America
ExpEther technology virtualizes PCI Express over Ethernet. Using ExpEther, one can configure a… | ||
| Linux on OpenPower Validation - Keeping Linux Bug Free | Sachin Sant, Nageswara Sastry | 36m |
Presented by Sachin Sant & Nageswara Sastry, IBM
Testing/QA is the most important activity in Software Development Life Cycle to ensure the Software and/or… | ||
| Linux on POWER Driver Porting, Optimization, and Test | Brian King | 47m |
Covers concrete gotchas for porting Linux I/O drivers to POWER: systems run mostly little-endian, POWER is 64-bit only and favors a 128-byte cache line for… | ||
| State of IBM POWER Support on FreeBSD | Piotr Kubaj | 34m |
FreeBSD ports are rebuilt on a POWER9 server and many failing builds are fixed, with work covering powerpc, powerpcspe and powerpc64 and endian issues (FreeBSD… | ||
| PowerAI Vision & Other Solutions on an AI Box | Arvind Bharani, Adith SV | 21m |
A low‑cost AI box is built from a 4‑core IBM Power9 CPU, 32 GB ECC RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, costing about ~$3k build cost. Using PowerAI Vision it… | ||
| Composable AI Solution For Power 9 | Brian Pan | 44m |
H3 Platform presents Falcon II a PCIe Gen4 fabric GPU expansion box that connects to Power9 servers and loads up to 16 GPGPUs shared across up to four hosts… | ||
| IBM’s Next Generation POWER Processor and Memory Roadmap | Madeline Vega, Brian Allison | 36m |
Roadmap shows a concrete I/O-first strategy: a 2020 POWER9 advanced-I/O chip with 24 SMT cores, 120 MB L3, eight DDR ports delivering ~150 GB/s sustained, 48… | ||
| Overview of the SMC 1000 8x25G: OMI to DDR4 Memory Controller | Sanjay Goyal | 17m |
Microchip’s SMC1000 is a serial memory controller that converts 8x25G OMI into native DDR4, packing four times the channels into ~34 signals versus ~150 DDR… | ||
| The Open Domain-Specific Architecture | Bapi Vinnakota | 37m |
Defines concrete open chiplet interfaces and a marketplace model, shows working prototypes: a reusable baseboard with three plug‑in accelerator slots… | ||
| An Overview of the Self Boot Engine (SBE) in POWER9 base OpenPOWER Systems | Amit Tendolkar | 39m |
Overview of the Self Boot Engine in POWER9: a dedicated PPE42 32-bit core with 96 KB SRAM plus bolt-on peripherals implements on-chip boot, secure… | ||
| Counting the Stars | Jez Wain | 37m |
Project constructs a neural network that classifies Gaia variable stars using pandas numpy Keras (TensorFlow) and scikit‑learn on an IBM Power AC922 / Watson… | ||
| New Innovations in Power and Performance Management | Todd Rosedahl | 46m |
Overview of concrete engineering: POWER systems expose ~40 sensor types (≈400 sensors) with OCC reading power every 500 μs and temperatures every 4 ms, pushing… | ||
| OpenPOWER and GPU Porting Platform for FOSS Using OpenStack at OSUOSL | Lance Albertson | 36m |
OSUOSL runs an OpenStack cluster (Queens) on POWER8 and POWER9 hardware serving about 100 FOSS projects, hosting ~265 VMs across nodes and tracking 45 VMs per… | ||
| POWERing up gem5 | Basavaraj Talawar | 34m |
A three year university project adds a full system POWER9 model to gem5 and demonstrates a successful boot of OPAL firmware and the Linux kernel on that model… | ||
| Architecture Effects When Interacting with GPU Technologies | Christopher M. Sullivan | 44m |
Benchmarks compare NVIDIA V100/P100 GPUs on Power9 AC922 (NVLink) vs x86 PCIe and DGX2, running an owl CNN, the Casa GPU aligner, plankton CNN and a grass‑seed… | ||
| High-Performance MPI and Deep Learning on OpenPOWER Platform | Ching-Hsiang Chu | 31m |
Provides two commercial packages: a tuned MPI stack and a deep-learning bundle that combine OSU MVAPICH2-GDR with Horovod to run TensorFlow/PyTorch over NVIDIA… | ||
| OpenPOWER in Enterprise: Implementing OpenBMC/OPAL Features | Alexey Stepanov | 30m |
Lists implemented and planned OpenBMC/OPAL features for enterprise deployments including a working system reset via OPAL/OpenBMC that captures Linux kernel… | ||
| Day 2 Keynote | Ken King | 15m |
Announces that Power ISA is licensed royalty-free with patent rights and moves ISA changes to a community open governance majority-vote process; contributes… | ||
| Day 2 Keynote | Aaron Sullivan | 22m |
Facebook commits to moving open hardware forward by delivering the missing “plumbing”: an open EDA toolchain, compilers and reference implementations that let… | ||
| Day 2 Keynote Demonstration | Anton Blanchard, Joe DeLaere | 12m |
Announces a tiny OpenPOWER soft core called microwatt, written in VHDL 2008 and simulated with GHDL then synthesized with the vendor toolset (demo uses… | ||
| Day 2 Keynote | Michael Cunningham | 12m |
Open collaboration accelerates innovation and value creation: a company grows from just under $200 million to just under $4 billion by liberating innovation… | ||
| Day 2 Keynote Panel | Timothy Pearson, Derek Chiou, Steve Hebert, Alan Clark, Bapi Vinnakota | 50m |
Conference announces open-source Power ISA, released RTL cores and a tiny FPGA proof-of-concept that microwatt PowerPC POC barely consumes fabric, proving a… | ||
| Closing Remarks & Special Announcement | Mendy Furmanek | 02m |
OpenPOWER Foundation thanks attendees and partners for the event and for making the announcements possible, notes a previously secret revealed and promises… | ||
| Implementing an FPGA Accelerator w/Coherent Memory Access in Apache Arrow | Noushin Azami | 20m |
Prototype implements a Gentry-style homomorphic encryption pipeline on an FPGA and focuses on cutting data-transfer overhead by integrating Fletcher with the… | ||
| The Fletcher Framework: Bringing Apache Arrow to FPGA | Johan Peltenburg | 47m |
Fletcher brings Apache Arrow in-memory tables directly to FPGA by generating hardware interfaces from Arrow schemas, producing HDL templates and simulation… | ||
| CAPI/OpenCAPI Accelerated PostgreSQL | Peng Fei Gou | 28m |
Implementation accelerates PostgreSQL string queries by adding FPGA logic connected over a cache‑coherent CAPI/OpenCAPI bridge and using the SNAP framework… | ||
| Enabling SQL to FPGA Using HLS for Filtering/Stream Data Transformations | Erwin de Haan | 23m |
A compiler automatically transpiles SQL and a table schema to HLS C++ that becomes a streaming FPGA filter, using the Fletcher framework for Arrow buffers and… | ||
| Thymesis-P: An Approach to Rack-scale Disaggregation Over OpenCAPI | Dimitris Syrivelis | 42m |
Presented by Dimitris Syrivelis, IBM
OpenCAPI has the potential to revolutionize the way computers are organized. Custom off-chip components may coherently… | ||
| OpenCAPI Accel: Unleash the Power of Customized Accelerators | Yong Lu | 33m |
OC-Accel is an OpenCAPI platform that lets FPGA accelerators access host memory coherently in C1 mode, accelerator-initiated transactions. It implements an… | ||
| Highlights of OpenCAPI Verification IP | Bipul Talukdar | 14m |
SmartDV's OpenCAPI verification IP supports OpenCAPI 4.0 and is shipping after about a year with early adopters, providing standard UVM host/device BFMs… | ||
| Hybrid Memory Project and OpenCAPI | Michael Miller | 15m |
Claims hybrid DRAM+flash reaches near-DRAM speeds (about 1.1–1.7× slower) using two concrete techniques: an interruptible write for flash that roughly doubles… | ||
| FPGAs in the Datacenter | Steve Hebert | 24m |
Claims that FPGAs can be packaged as containerized, deploy-anywhere applications and sold through a marketplace; Nimbus says it has supported FPGAs in cloud… | ||
| Protected Execution Facility On Power | Guerney D. H. Hunt, Ram Pai, Michael E Anderson | 55m |
POWER9 adds a new highest-privilege Ultravisor mode that controls hardware-marked secure memory and enforces SVMs that run only when MSR S-bit is set. A… | ||
| AutoML for Efficient Neural Architecture Design | Ligeng Zhu | 38m |
ProxylessNAS automates architecture search directly on target devices by training an over‑parameterized supernet, binarizing architectural choices to keep GPU… | ||
| OpenPOWER in Enterprise: Gaps & Challenges | Nikolay Semenov, Alexey Stepanov | 33m |
Yadro reports concrete gaps when shipping OpenPOWER for enterprise: firmware lacks an enterprise diagnostics/reporting mode and system error logs are binary… | ||
| D4P: The Power Platform for Docker Online Container Authoring | Abdul Dakkak | 32m |
A web service lets developers build in browser or use a CLI to compile Power/ppc64le Docker images on remote Power hardware, stream real-time build logs, and… | ||
| Pack-em or Stack-em: Advantages of Running OpenShift on Power | Krishna Harsha Voora | 32m |
OpenShift Container Platform (3.11) runs a MEAN-like workload (MongoDB Enterprise 4.2 + Node 14) on POWER9 and Skylake clusters with an SLA of <999 ms and a 1%… | ||
| OpenPower Ready Certification Process and Requirements | Ned Gamble | 27m |
Overview of the OpenPower Ready program, the Rev 2 criteria moving toward Rev 3, and how to get products certified: systems must implement the POWER ISA… | ||
| OpenPower Solution Builder Community | John Pace, Christopher M. Sullivan | 40m |
Community forms a searchable forum and GitHub hub for builders around POWER9 AC922 with three goals: Q&A, best practices and reference stacks, and sharing… | ||
| Developing Applications using Acceleration Hardware on Power | Gerrit Huizenga | 34m |
OpenPOWER forms an Accelerated Application Ecosystem WG that catalogs GPUs, FPGAs, OpenCAPI and other off-core accelerators, creates an ISV questionnaire to… | ||
| The POWER of Supercomputers at Your Fingertips | Rafael Sene | 40m |
Demonstrates how developers get free POWER VMs via mini clouds (UNICAMP, Oregon State) with more than 1,000 requests since 2014, plus tooling: an SDK with a… | ||
| OpenPOWER Lab@Unicamp and Minicloud Updates and Call for Input | Klaus Heinrich Kiwi | 43m |
UNICAMP runs a public Minicloud offering OpenStack Rocky on Ubuntu 16.04 with 2 Power9 + 5 Power8 nodes — about 567 cores 760 GB RAM 10 TB disk — hosting a… | ||
| VT OpenPOWER Hackathon | Robert Settlage | 31m |
Virginia Tech runs a two‑week OpenPOWER hackathon with 52 participants using the PowerAI toolset and Open OnDemand as a one‑click portal to Jupyter notebooks… | ||
| Day 1 Keynote: OpenPOWER All Star Awards 2019 | Hugh Blemings | 03m |
OpenPOWER All Star Awards honor two concrete contributions: Scot Schultz of Mellanox wins Webmaster Extraordinaire for running and modernizing the OpenPOWER… | ||
| Day 1 Keynote | Timothy Pearson | 06m |
Raptor Computing Systems claims full-source firmware and no external vendor signing keys, enabling owner-controlled systems with disclosed schematics… | ||
| Day 1 Keynote | Brian Pan | 05m |
Composable GPU fabric that lets servers attach or release GPUs live over PCIe channel based GPU provisioning, built on a Power9 OpenPOWER switch and a 16‑GPU… | ||
| Day 1 Keynote | Pete Hazen | 09m |
Microchip unveils the SMC1000 smart memory controller that puts the memory controller off‑chip and connects to Power9 with 8×25 G OMI to a 72‑bit DDR4‑3200… | ||
| Day 1 Keynote: IBM OpenPOWER Roadmap | Steve Fields | 09m |
Roadmap focuses on coherent hardware acceleration and a redesigned memory subsystem that moves the memory controller onto the DIMM (a differential DIMM or… | ||
| Day 1 Keynote: OpenPOWER Brings Alternatives to China | John Hu | 11m |
IPS and IBM-backed Super Power System family uses OpenPOWER motherboards and a JDM development/manufacturing model to replace x86 in storage and scale-out… | ||
| Day 1 Keynote: Disrupting Storage with OpenPOWER | Nikolay Semenov | 07m |
Claims that OpenPOWER underpins a competitive storage platform with real deployments and measurable scale The YADRO TATLIN appliance uses OpenPOWER… | ||
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