By Brad Thomasson, Cognitive Software Engineer, IBM

After announcing the newest IBM POWER10 processor at the Hot Chips 2020 in August, our IBM Cognitive Systems Simulation team is now proud to present the IBM POWER10 Functional Simulator. 

This publicly available simulation…

Today at OpenPOWER Summit 2020, OpenPOWER Foundation announced two key technologies contributed by IBM to the open source community.

A2O POWER processor core, an out-of-order follow-up to the A2I core, and associated FPGA environment
Open Cognitive Environment (Open-CE), based…

Earlier this month, OpenPOWER participated in the International Conference on Supercomputing, co-hosted by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-BarcelonaTECH) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). The conference showcased the latest research in high-performance computing systems.

Included in the agenda was a…

By: James Kulina Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation

This May, Antmicro announced support for the POWER ISA in Renode, its open source, multi-architecture, heterogeneous multi-core capable simulator for software development and software-hardware co-development.

It’s an exciting development, as developers can now test…

At The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit today, the OpenPOWER Foundation announced a major contribution to the open source ecosystem: the IBM A2I POWER processor core design and associated FPGA environment. Following the opening of the POWER Instruction Set…

By James Kulina, Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation

“It’s my goal to make OpenPOWER one of the easiest platforms to go from an idea to a silicon chip.”- James Kulina, Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation

Hey everyone – I’m…

By Sandy Woodward, OpenPOWER Foundation Compliance Work Group Chair, IBM Academy of Technology Member

The Compliance Work Group recently completed the OpenPOWER I/O Design Architecture, version 3 (IODA3) Compliance Test Harness and Test Suite (TH/TS) Specification. The input to the…

“It’s been an honour and joy to have been part of the OpenPOWER ecosystem as Executive Director of the Foundation.” – Hugh Blemings

I had the good fortune to join the OpenPOWER Foundation as Executive Director…

By Bill Schmidt, Ph.D., Toolchain Architect for Linux on Power, IBM

The OpenPOWER Foundation System Software Work Group is happy to announce that the public review of the Power Vector Intrinsics Programming Reference (PVIPR) is now open!

The new PVIPR document…

Hugh Blemings, Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation

First, the thoughts of all involved in OpenPOWER and the Foundation are with the broader community and their families in these trying and uncertain times. Please stay safe out there.

As the Executive Director of…

As we deal with the serious implications of COVID-19, the team at the OpenPOWER Foundation got to thinking about how a technical organisation like ourselves can connect and support our community.

So we hit upon the idea of running ongoing,…

By: Sandy Woodward, OpenPOWER Foundation Compliance Work Group Chair, IBM Academy of Technology Member

There is much excitement in the August 2019 announcement of open-sourcing the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), which provides the opportunity for experimentation and collaboration. When…

From the OpenPOWER Foundation team in China, the ten finalists for this year’s OpenCAPI contest have been announced.  The full text of the announcement is shown below, or an English translation is available if you prefer.

Congratulations to all the…

By: Hugh Blemings

On August 20, 2019 the OpenPOWER Foundation, along with IBM, announced that the POWER ISA was to be released under an open license. You can read more about it in previous posts but the short story is that…

Arghya Kusum Das, Ph.D., Asst. Professor, UW-Platteville

In the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) at the University of Wisconsin at Platteville, I work closely with hardware system designers to improve the quality of the institute’s research and…

By: Hugh Blemings, Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation

Hugh Blemings and Allstair Francis at the OpenISA miniconf, held at linux.conf.au in January, 2020.

In mid-January, I made what has become an annual pilgrimage to linux.conf.au – the Linux/Open…

By: Mendy Furmanek, Director, OpenPOWER Processor Enablement, IBM and President, OpenPOWER Foundation

2019 was an important year for the OpenPOWER Foundation – especially the second half of the year. In the course of a few months, our ecosystem became even…

Ganesan Narayanasamy, OpenPOWER Leader in Education and Research, IBM Systems

Our society is struggling with deepfake images and videos and the harmful impact that they can have by spreading misinformation. Detecting these malicious efforts will become even more difficult as…