Google, IBM, Mellanox, Nvidia and Tyan have announced
plans to form the OpenPOWER Consortium - an open development alliance
based on IBM's Power microprocessor architecture. The Consortium intends
to build advanced server, networking, storage and GPU-acceleration
technology aimed at delivering more choice, control and flexibility to
developers of next-generation, hyperscale and cloud data centers.
The
move makes Power hardware and software available to open development
for the first time as well as making Power IP licensable to others,
greatly expanding the ecosystem of innovators on the platform. The
consortium will offer open-source Power firmware, the software that
controls basic chip functions. By doing this, IBM and the consortium can
offer unprecedented customization in creating new styles of server
hardware for a variety of computing workloads.
As part
of their initial collaboration within the consortium, Nvidia and IBM
will work together to integrate the CUDA GPU and Power ecosystems.
By: Joseph Tsai
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