Technical Steering Committee Update

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1 Technical Steering Committee Update Jeff Brown, TSC Chair IBM, Emerging Product Development, IBM Academy of Technology member Revolutionizing the Datacenter

2 Topics TSC and Workgroup Accomplishments OpenPOWER Reference Design Bundle - Developer Platform Workgroup CAPI Related Specifications Power Processor Architecture OpenPOWER Document Development 2016 Focus Resource Catalog OpenPOWER Memory Bus Specification Integrated Solutions Workgroup Randall Ross Chair Additional Workgroups OpenPOWER Ready 4/1/2016 2

3 OpenPOWER Reference Design Bundle Dev Platform Workgroup Workgroup Note Chair: Chuck Bartlett, Tyan Available on Single socket reference design Complete set of information including list and pointers to various firmware items 4/1/2016 3

4 CAPI Related Specifications Accelerator WG Chair Allan Cantle, Nallatech PSL/AFU Interface Power Service Layer (PSL) Accelerator Function Unit (AFU) Accelerator Workgroup Specification Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture (CAIA) HW Architecture Workgroup Specification Available on 4/1/2016 4

5 Power Processor Architecture Hardware Architecture Workgroup Dr. Michael Gschwind, IBM Chair OpenPOWER ISA Profile - Power ISA 2.07b subset Published as WG Specification Beginning work on update based on recently released Power ISA 3.0 IO Device Architecture (IODA2) PCIe Host Bridge Published as WG Specification Beginning work on update based on RFC from IBM for Power9 Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture CAPI CAIA specification Published as WG Specification Beginning work on update based on RFC from IBM for Power9 System Software Workgroup Jeff Scheel, IBM Chair 64b Little Endian Application Binary Interface (64bLEABI) Published with Apache 2.0 license SYSSW WG managing future updates 4/1/2016 5

6 OpenPOWER Document Development OpenSource tooling XML text source with docbook tags Github repositories for collaborative document development Maven processing to generate web ready html and pdf documents 4/1/2016 6

7 Topics TSC and Workgroup Accomplishments OpenPOWER Reference Design Bundle - Developer Platform Workgroup CAPI Related Specifications Power Processor Architecture OpenPOWER Document Development 2016 Focus Resource Catalog OpenPOWER Memory Bus Specification Integrated Solutions Workgroup Randall Ross Chair Additional Workgroups OpenPOWER Ready 4/1/2016 7

8 Generalized library capability for ecosystem content Resource Catalog Categorization and search user interface <URL> WG specifications and Notes Product information Solution information 4/1/2016 8

9 Memory Service Layer (MSL) OpenPOWER Memory Bus Specification Memory WG Specification Draft Chair: David Wang, Inphi Corp. Abstract OPMB Compliant Memory System 4/1/2016 9

10 Integrated Solutions Workgroup Chair: Randall Ross, Canonical Focus: Identifying Integrated Solutions that would make good targets for OpenPOWER Foundation workgroups to develop / optimize an OpenPOWER solution. Currently Looking at: Exploring the right scope and projects Machine Learning / Deep learning / Cognitive Computing Mobile Edge Computing Join us and share your insights Randall has organized an ISV Roundtable on Thursday 4/1/

11 Workgroup Compliance Sandra Woodward, IBM Chair Additional Workgroups Focus OpenPOWER Architecture Compliance Definition published as WG Specification Working to complete compliance criteria for the each WG Spec as it is approved. Presented at the OpenPOWER Pavilion theater yesterday at 12:45pm 25GIO Compatibility Dan Dreps, IBM Chair Personalized Medicine Dr. Zaid Al-Ars, Bluebee Chair 25Gbps PHY and DataLink Training Specification Compatibility to multiple transport protocols on same Power9 physical IO Accelerating Cancer Diagnostics Pipelines Using Technologies of OpenPOWER Presenting this afternoon at 4:55pm Summit Room 220C FSI Specification Thomas Pflueger, IBM Chair Robust service interface used in IBM Power chipset Encouraging ecosystem members to develop / attach direct to FSI Hardened FSI Slave or SoftFSI IO Workgroup Rakesh Sharma, IBM Chair Enrich OpenPOWER IO offering, partner collaboration and workgroup assets OpenPOWER I/O Porting Documentation, testing guidance 4/1/

12 Topics TSC and Workgroup Accomplishments OpenPOWER Reference Design Bundle - Developer Platform Workgroup CAPI Related Specifications Power Processor Architecture OpenPOWER Document Development 2016 Focus Resource Catalog OpenPOWER Memory Bus Specification Integrated Solutions Workgroup Randall Ross Chair Additional Workgroups OpenPOWER Ready 4/1/

13 Announcing OpenPOWER Ready!! Ecosystem Products / solutions may display badge Hardware and software Components, applications, and systems Development and validation tools Participants request to use it! Encourage product usage in ecosystem Compatibility OpenPOWER Ready List 4/1/

14 Satisfying OpenPOWER Ready Criteria Show a product satisfies the criteria by: 1. Self Assessment 2. Attending an OpenPOWER Plugfest and demonstrate completing the criteria publicly 3. A 3 rd Party may be used to perform the evaluation (1 or 2) on behalf of the product owner OpenPOWER Ready 2016 Definition and Criteria Workgroup Note detailing the program <URL> pointing to webpage OpenPOWER Ready Plugfest Preview Friday 4/8, 8AM 11AM Santa Clara II 4/1/

15 OpenPOWER Ready Request Owner (Company, etc) Contact Name Contact Product Name Short Product Description Tag String Product info URL Bitmap or vector graphic image OpenPOWER Ready Category (system, IO, CAPI, OS, App, etc.) Version of Criteria for Mark Completed Checklist (for category) Product OpenPOWER READY Criteria Version 4/1/

16 OpenPOWER Ready Flow Criteria x.y Requesting Entity OpenPOWER Foundation Assess Complete request / report and submit to OpenPOWER Foundation via Done? Notify about missing parts Product Create Ready_Record for resource catalog Send notification to requester 4/1/

17 OpenPOWER Ready TM List Already have nnn products displaying the mark! Resource Catalog Search Resource Type: OpenPOWER Ready Main Category: <System, IO, CAPI, OS, App> (optional) 4/1/

18 Thank You! Join the OpenPOWER Foundation and Get Involved! Be a supplier of OpenPOWER Ready products! 4/1/