OpenPOWER Summit 2016

The OpenPOWER Foundation announced a successful 2016 OpenPOWER Summit, building upon the great success of the Foundation’s inaugural Summit in 2015.

The event featured speakers and demonstrations from the OpenPOWER ecosystem, including industry leaders and academia sharing their technical solutions and state of the art advancements.
OPF Summit 2016 took place at the San Jose Convention Center at the GPU Technology Conference on April 5-8 where 5,000+ attendees, including thought  leaders, technologists from enterprise and academia and key influencers from the analyst, business and trade press communities were present.
Attendees joined us to present, demonstrate, lead, network, participate, and learn about the very latest innovations, capabilities and future directions of OpenPOWER.
 

Summit Presentation Schedule
Wednesday, April 6
Keynote Presentations (9:00 AM – 11:00 AM, San Jose Convention Center Room 220C)

	OpenPOWER Vice President	Michael Diamond	Opening Session
	OpenPOWER Chair	John Zannos	Building OpenPOWER Momentum
	OpenPOWER President	Calista Redmond	OpenPOWER Revolution in the Data Center and Ecosystems Solutions
	OpenPOWER Technical Steering Chair	Jeff Brown	OpenPOWER Latest Workgroup Accomplishments, and Application Initiatives
	IBM Vice President	Brad McCredie	OpenPOWER and the Roadmap Ahead
	Google	Maire Mahony	Collaborating with Open Compute Project and OpenPOWER Communities to Scale Out Datacenter Solutions
	Rackspace	Aaron Sullivan	Soft-Hardare: The Foundation of Cloud 2.0

Summit Member Presentations (1:30 PM – 7:00 PM)

	NVIDIA	Michael Diamond	Opening Remarks
	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Fernanda Foerrter	Impact of Partner Collaboation on Scientific Discoveries
	IBM	Sumit Gupta	Evolution of HPC–Data Centric Systems Producing Systems of Insight
	University of Michigan	Brock Palen	ConFlux - A Platform for Data Driven Computational Physic
	Baylor University	Suhas Rao	Uncovering a 3D Code in the Human Genome with Power8 and GPUs
	NVIDIA	John Ashley	Programming Forward for NVIDIA Pascal Architecture and OpenPOWER Platforms
	Tyan	Albert Mu	Accelerating Innovation with TYAN OpenPOWER System
	Mellanox	Scot Schultz	Next Generation Performance and Scalability with Mellanox “Smart” Interconnect and OpenPOWER
	Microsemi	Stephen Bates	Enabling High-Performance Storage on OpenPOWER Systems
	Jülich Supercomputing Centre	Prof. Dr. Dirk Pleiter	OpenPOWER Academia Discussion Group
	PGI	Doug Miles	PGI Accelerator Fortran/C/C++ Compilers for OpenPOWER+Tesla
	NEC	Takashi Yoshikawa	Resource Disaggregated Platform (RD Platform) Including Power8 and GPUs for Diverse Cloud Computing Service
	Xilinix	Ralph Wittig	Power-Efficient Machine Learning on POWER systems using FPGA Acceleration
	Brocade	Brian Larsen	OpenPOWER & Brocade vRouter Possibilities
	LSU	Richard Platania	IBM POWER8 HPC System Accelerates Genomics Analysis with SMT8 Multithreading
	Bluebee	Dr. Zaid Al-Ars	Accelerating Cancer Diagnostics Pipelines Using Technologies of OpenPOWER
	StackVelocity	Jeff DiCorpo	Enabling the Power Behind OpenPower – Introducing a New Class of OpenPower Platforms Targeted at Storage Rich Applications
	E4 Computer Engineering	Piero Altoe	How to Build a Fully Functional Cluster Using Free and Open Source Tools for Installation, Setup, and Management of HPC Clusters Based on Accelerated OpenPOWER Servers
	STFC Daresbury Laboratory	Dr. Mike Ashworth	Driving Innovation at the Hartree Centre with the OpenPOWER Architecture
	Apache Bigtop	Nate D’Amico	Apache Bigtop Overview and Bringing Big/Fast Data Components to POWER
	Algo-Logic Systems	John W. Lockwood	Moving Ad Exchanges from Main Street to Wall Street
	DRC Computer	Roy Graham	Mission Critical Accelerated Applications
	Nallatech	Allan Cantle	Guide to Heterogeneous, Accelerated, Data Centric Computing Architectures

OpenPOWER Pavilion Theater Schedule
Tuesday, April 5 (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM)

	IBM	Laurent Fournier	A Methodology for Ensuring Architecture Compliance with the POWER Architecture
	IBM	Bruce Wile	Innovations in the areas of Machine Learning, Security, Video Analytics, Genomics, Big Data, and Image Processing
	Rackspace	Kenneth Wilke & Adithya Gangidi	Power of Open(Source)BMC
	IBM	Christophe Menicheti	Open Your Big Data Solutions to Gain Insights with IBM
	Tsinghua University	Jingheng Xu	A CAPI-based Preliminary Example in Seismic Migration
	IBM	Todd Rosedahl	Measuring and Managing Power Consumption
	IBM	Yonghua Lin and Jun Song Wang	Cognitive Computing System on the OpenStack based OpenPOWER Cloud (SuperVessel)
	IBM	Sandy Woodward	Building Synergy in the OpenPOWER Ecosystem Around OpenPOWER Compliance and OpenPOWER Ready

 

OpenPOWER Pavilion Theater Schedule
Tuesday, April 5 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM)

	IBM	Steve Faure	Customizing Open Power Firmware for Bringup
	IBM	Rafik Zurob	CUDA Fortran Programming with the IBM XL Fortran Compiler
	IBM	Kelvin Li	OpenMP Accelerator Support for GPU
	IBM	Marcelo Perazolo	An Integrated Management Solution for Converged Infrastructures fueled by OpenPOWER
	IBM	Shilpasri G Bhat	Enabling Instrumentation Using Programmable on-chip Components to Monitor Sensors
	IBM	Jason Albert Mehulkumar J. Patel	HTX & eCMD System Development Tools
	IBM	Stewart Smith	OpenPower Firmware Dev, Test, Community and Compliance

OpenPOWER Pavilion Theater Schedule
Wednesday, April 6 (12:00 PM – 2:00 PM)

	IBM	Guang Cheng Li	OpenPOWER Cloud Container Service in Practice
	IBM	Dr. Ruchir Puri	Machine and Deep Learning on Power Systems
	IBM	Shereen Ghobrial & Istvan Reguly	CUDA Programming and Performance Tuning with IBM XL Compilers on POWER8 Systems
	IBM	Pascal Vezolle	Building the OpenPOWER Ecosystem – POWER Acceleration & Design Centers
	IBM	Jan Van Lunteren	ProgrammableNear-Memory Acceleration onConTutto
	IBM	Heiner Giefers	Energy Efficient Transparent Library Acceleration with CAPI
	Lund University	Jonas Skeppstedt	Using Power to Improve C Programming Education
	Semptian	Eric Deng	Accelerator for POWER

OpenPOWER Pavilion Theater Schedule
Wednesday, April 6 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM)   

	IBM	Ralph Christ	Announcing Hardware Abstraction Layer
	IBM	Lorena Pesantez & Raj Krishnamurthy	Apache Spark on OpenPOWER
	Mark III Systems	Andy Lin	Barreleye for the Masses!
	IBM	Jeremy Kerr	Linux on OpenPOWER: Internals, Interfaces and Integration
	IBM	Rafael Sene	A Full Featured IDE for C/C++ Development
	IBM	Jing Li	A Software Defined Bigdata Solution Built on Cross-region OpenPOWER Data Centers
	IBM	Chris Austen	OpenBMC, A Reference Firmware Stack
	IBM	Nikolaos Papandreou	Low Latency Access to Phase Change Memory in OpenPOWER Systems
	IBM	Dr. Thomas Roewer	ConTutto is an IBM Research Configurable Platform for Innovation in the Memory Subsystem of an OpenPOWER Node
	IBM	Sam Ponedal	OpenPOWER Developer Resources Map
	IBM	Dean Sanner	Secure and Trusted Boot for OpenPOWER
	IBM	Robert A. Sherwood	Enabling New Market Opportunities for OpenPOWER Accelerator Solution Developers

 

ISV Roundtable
Thursday, April 7 (9:30 AM – 12:00 PM)       

ISV Roundtable Video, Part 1		ISV Roundtable Video, Part 2
	Canonical	Randall Ross	The OpenPOWER ISV Community is Awesome!
	IBM	Yonghua Lin	AutoPort: Automatic tool to help porting from x86 to POWER
	IBM	Lance Thompson	CAPI Building Blocks to Accerate Your Software Solutions
	Tengu	Thomas Vanhove	Tengu: Open the POWER of your Big Data
	Skymind	Adam Gibson	Deep Learning for Enterprise
	IBM	Robert Sherwood	OpenPOWER Ecosystem for Accelerator Solution Developers
	IBM	Alex Mericas	Introduction to OpenPOWER Performance
	Redis Labs	Jeffrey Leeds	Redis Labs runs faster and more efficiently on Power8 Servers
	Software Architect, IBM RedBooks Co-Author	Pascal Polverini	Lead Cloud App Development and Business on Power
	IBM	Adriana Kobylak	OpenPower, the Swiss Army Knife of DevOps
	Canonical	Antonio Rosales	Idea to Implementation: Iterating Faster
	6WIND	Kelly LeBlanc	Turbo Boost NFV Performance on Power Platforms
	Rackspace	Kenneth Wilke & Adi Gangidi	Power of Open(Source) BMC
	OSU	Lance Albertson	Lightning Talk: Open Source Developer/Research Facilities
	IBM	Sam Ponedal	Lightning Talk: Developer Resources
	Canonical	Randall Ross	Thanks and See You Soon!

OpenPOWER CAPI/FPGA LAB – Hilton Santa Clara I
Friday, April 8 (8:00 AM – 11:00 AM)    

Attendees at the very successful OpenPOWER Summit lab learned how the combination of IBM POWER8 processors, the IBM CAPI feature, Xilinx FPGA acceleration cards, and OpenCL can meet the computing challenges of next generation accelerated applications. The lab provided a hands on introduction to software acceleration and optimization using the Xilinx SDAccel development environment. The SDAccel development environment leverages the industry standard APIs and programming model of OpenCL to expose FPGA based acceleration and true shared virtual memory to application programmers without requiring FPGA architecture expertise.
Call for Attendees CAPI Lab

OpenPOWER Ready Plugfest Preview – Hilton San Carlos
Friday, April 8 (8:00 AM – 11:00 AM) 

Attendees at the very informative OpenPOWER Ready Plugfest Preview learned how products become OpenPOWER Ready. The Preview provided information on the OpenPOWER Ready process and demo test tools that have been used for a variety of I/O types. Product owners of OpenPOWER Ready products were present to share their experience. Participants experienced these products running in OpenPOWER Ready systems and got an idea of what it would be like to participate in a future OpenPOWER Ready Plugfest. This preview aimed at generating feedback from the participants to make future Plugfests successful.

The Watson Lab 202 – Monday, April 4

Room 1121A:  9:00 – 11:00/11:00 – 1:00/1:00 – 3:00/3:00- 5:00

The Watson Lab 202 – Thursday, April 7

Hilton Santa Clara: 1:30 – 3:30/3:30 – 5:30                                                  

IBM Watson delivered a unique opportunity for attendees of the NVIDIA GTC Conference and the OpenPOWER Foundation Summit. Developers interested in Machine or Deep Learning benefitted from very informative sessions. IBM Watson it is a cognitive technology platform that uses Natural Language Processing, Vision, Machine and Deep Learning to reveal insights from large amounts of unstructured data. The Watson Lab 202 was a hands on experience with IBM’s Watson cognitive platform. Starting with a set of Watson services, attendees of all skill levels learned how to build apps powered by Watson, gaining experience using cognitive and deep learning technologies.
During this workshop, participants: 1) Learned about Watson and how to build with Watson technology from Watson Ecosystem experts; 2) Experienced how Watson and cognitive computing are powering applications today; 3) Were provided hands-on with Watson technology in a technical lab session.

SUMMIT 2016 PAVILION EXHIBITORS

OpenPOWER MEMBERS AT GTC

	ONE STOP SYSTEMS

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