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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 2 months, 4 weeks ago
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…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 3 months, 1 week ago
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…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 3 months, 4 weeks ago
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…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 4 months, 4 weeks ago
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…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
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Christopher M. Sullivan started the topic Bowtie2 for PPC64LE in the forum
Solution Builders in the group Solution Builders 5 months, 3 weeks agoHi All,
Recently we found that the developers of Bowtie2 have included support for ppc64le machines. Here is the link and method to compile from source. Bowtie2 is used by many groups working on genomes and this really enables that work on the OpenPOWER platform.Link: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=bowtie2
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 6 months ago
“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…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 7 months ago
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…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 7 months, 1 week ago
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,…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 8 months ago
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…
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Hugh Blemings wrote a new post 8 months, 1 week ago
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…
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Hugh Blemings wrote a new post 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 8 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 9 months, 1 week ago
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…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 9 months, 1 week ago
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…
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Jim Mignano wrote a new post 9 months, 4 weeks ago
By: Jack Wells, Director of Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory National Center for Computational Sciences
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility was established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory over 25 years ago. We set out on a mission to accelerate…
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