Mary Coucher IBM VP, Technology Partnerships

1. TAIPEI | SEP. 21-22, 2016
Mary Coucher
IBM VP, Technology Partnerships
OPENPOWER FOUNDATION
OVERVIEW

2. 29/26/16
Today’s challenges demand innovation
Data holds competitive valueFull system and stack
open innovation required
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44 zettabytes
unstructured data
2010 2020
structured data
DataGrowth
Price/Performance
Moore’s Law
Processor
Technology
2000 2020
Firmware / OS
Accelerators
Software
Storage
Network

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Accelerated innovation
through collaboration of
partners
Amplified capabilities
driving industry
performance leadership
Vibrant ecosystem through
open development
Cloud Computing
Hyperscale & Large scale
Datacenters
High Performance
Computing & Analytics
Domestic
IT Agendas
Industry adoption, Open choice
OpenPOWER Strategy
Moore’s law no longer
satisfies performance
gain
Numerous IT consumption
models
Growing workload
demands
Mature Open software
ecosystem
Market Shifts
OpenPOWER, a catalyst for Open Innovation
OpenPOWER is an open development community,
using the POWER Architecture to serve the evolving needs of customers.

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OpenPOWER
Open Innovation
Incorporated December 2013
Vision Execution Adoption
Opening the door, a
license to innovate
OpenPOWER Summit March 2015
Game changing
solutions
OpenPOWER Summit April 2016
From proof of concept
to industry revolution
• Hyperscale & Cloud
Service Providers
• High Performance
Computing & Analytics
• Domestic IT agendas
Evolution to Revolution

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© 2016 OpenPOWER Foundation
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© 2016 OpenPOWER Foundation
This is what a revolution looks like

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Accelerates Infrastructure Standards
2014 2015 2016
Developer Platform
System SW
HW Architecture
Accelerator
Compliance
SP010 – Tyan OpenPOWER Customer Reference System
CAPI – Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface
AFU – Accelerator Function Unit
FSI – Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) Service Interface
25g IO Compatibility
Memory
OpenPOWER I/O
11 Work Groups
Charter
Compliance Specification
Draft Review WG Spec
Comp
STD
Charter
OpenPOWER ISA Profile V1
IO Device Architecture V2
Coherent Accel Intf Arch
OpenPOWER ISA Profile V2
IO Device Architecture V3
Coherent Accel Intf Arch
Charter
P8 SP010
Data
P8 2U2S
Reference
P8+ 1U1S
Reference
P8+ 2U2S
Reference
OPMB Intf. Spec V1Charter
Charter
CAPI AFU Intf Spec V1
OpenCL SDK
CAPI AFU Intf Spec V2
Charter
CAPI Linux
SDK
64b ABI
Platform Ref
Sys I/O Enablement GuideCharter
Charter 25g IO Spec
OPMB – OpenPOWER Memory Bus
ABI – Application Binary Interface
FSI Specification FSI SpecCharter
SDK – Software Developer Kit
Charter Pers Med
Charter Integrated Solutions
Integrated Solutions
Personalized Medicine

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Three keys to turning our evolution into a
revolution
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Collaborative
innovation
Open and
composable
systems
Fully integrated
hardware and
software solutions

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© 2016 OpenPOWER Foundation
Collaboration of people, ideas, and code
Welcome to the sharing economy
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© 2016 OpenPOWER Foundation
CROSS COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT DRIVES
MUTUAL PROGRESS

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© 2016 OpenPOWER Foundation
Composable systems and solutions
Common building blocks spur opportunity
and level the field
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Cross community collaboration is essential

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Optimization of hardware and software3
Data is the basis of competitive value with
potential to change the game

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Maximum Performance, Minimum Change
From highly parallelized languages to memory-intensive apps,
running the same code on POWER can dramatically increase
performance – and with all major Linux distros supported,
switching is easy.
Accelerate Beyond Limits
POWER’s deeply integrated accelerator support means code can
push beyond the limits of what’s possible with standard
processors.
Work Less, Do More
With better performance and scale, you can spend less time
building/testing/optimizing and more time developing the next new
thing.
Rule the Stack – No black boxes.
With OpenPOWER’s fully open architecture, developers rule the
stack – hardware, firmware, and software are open and ready for
optimization.
POWER8: Designed for Big Data
SMT8 – 64+ threads per CPU
Massive memory bandwidth &
workspace
Why Develop on OpenPOWER?

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Introducing OpenPOWER Ready
• Products / solutions may display badge
• Participants request to use it!
• Encourage product usage in ecosystem
• Compatibility
• Not Certification or Compliance
• OpenPOWER Ready™ List
Criteria
• The OpenPOWER Ready criteria are published by the OpenPOWER Foundation.
• Establishing an OpenPOWER Ready Workgroup.
• Companies are encouraged to join the OpenPOWER Foundation and the OpenPOWER Ready
Workgroup to stay current on proposed updates to the criteria as the definition and criteria
are evolved.

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Membership Level Annual Fee
$ USD
FTEs Technical Steering Committee Board / Voting position
Platinum $100k 10
One seat per member not otherwise
represented
Includes board position
Includes TSC position
Gold $60k 3
May be on TSC if
Work group lead
Gold members may elect one board
representative per three gold members
Silver $20k
$5k if <300 employees 0
May be on TSC if
Work group lead
Sliver members may elect one board
representative for all silver members
Silver ISV
$0 if ISV is <300
employees 0
May be on TSC if
Work group lead
Sliver members may elect one board
representative for all silver members
Associate &
Academic
$0 0
May be on TSC if
Work group lead
May be elected to one community
observer, non-voting Board seat
§ The OpenPOWER Foundation is a Not-for-profit entity with a Board of Directors and a Technical
Steering Committee.
• Membership levels provide either a default Board of Director position (Platinum) or an opportunity to be elected
to the Board (Gold, Silver, and Assoc/Academic members). The Bylaws include additional governance detail.
• Technical Steering Committee is formed from Work group Leads and Platinum members.
§ Membership options include Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Associate / Academic memberships
• Annual fee and dedicated full-time equivalent (FTEs) - verification of FTEs on honor system
• Contributors, committers, Work group leads and project leads influence Technical Steering Committee
• Associate / Academic level is not available to corporations
Anyone may participate in OpenPOWER. Membership levels are designed for those that are
investing to grow and enhance the OpenPOWER community and its proliferation within the industry.
Membership Options
New

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So what?
What difference does it
make?

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Accelerates Technology roadmap
2015 2016 2017
POWER8 POWER8 with NVLink POWER9
OpenPower
CAPI Interface
Enhanced
CAPI &
NVLink
Connect-IB
FDR Infiniband
PCIe Gen3
ConnectX-4
EDR Infiniband
CAPI over PCIe Gen3
ConnectX-5
Next-Gen Infiniband
Enhanced CAPI over PCIe Gen4
Mellanox
Interconnect
IBM CPUs
NVIDIA GPUs Kepler
PCIe Gen3
Volta
Enhanced NVLink
Pascal
NVLink
& Systems
Xilinx FPGAs UltraScale
CAPI, PCIe Gen3
UltraScale +
Enhanced CAPI, PCIe Gen3
UltraScale +
CAPI 2.0, PCIe Gen4

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POWER Processor Roadmap
POWER8 Architecture POWER9 Architecture
2014
POWER8
12 cores
22nm
New Micro-
Architecture
New Process
Technology
2016
POWER8
w/ NVLink
12 cores
22nm
Enhanced
Micro-
Architecture
With NVLink
2017
P9 SO
24 cores
14nm
New Micro-
Architecture
Direct attach
memory
New Process
Technology
Optimized for Data-Centric
Workloads
Integrated PCIe
CAPI Acceleration / I/O
Scale-Out Datacenter TCO
Optimization
Scale-up performance
Optimization
Acceleration Enhancements to
CAPI and NVLINK
Modularity for OpenPOWER
TBD
P9 SU
TBD cores
14nm
Enhanced
Micro-
Architecture
Buffered
Memory
POWER6 Architecture POWER7 Architecture
2007
POWER6
2 cores
65nm
New Micro-
Architecture
New Process
Technology
2008
POWER6+
2 cores
65nm+
Enhanced
Micro-
Architecture
Enhanced
Process
Technology
2010
POWER7
8 cores
45nm
New Micro-
Architecture
New Process
Technology
2012
POWER7+
8 cores
32nm
Enhanced
Micro-
Architecture
New Process
Technology
High Frequency
Enhanced RAS
Dynamic Energy
Management
Large eDRAM L3 Cache
Optimized VSX
Enhanced Memory
Subsystem
Focus on Enterprise
Technology and Performance Driven
Focus on Scale-Out and Enterprise
Cost and Acceleration Driven
2018 - 20
P8/9 SO
10nm - 7nm
Existing
Micro-
Architecture
Foundry
Technology
Partner Chip
POWER8/9
OpenPOWER
Ecosystem
Design
Targeting
Partner Markets
& Systems
Leveraging
Modulatrity
2020+
New Micro-
Architecture
New
Technology
POWER10
New
Features and
Functions
Future
T
B
D
Price, performance, feature, and ecosystem innovation

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Power8
Graphics Memory
System
Memory
Graphics Memory
PCIeGPU
CPU
Graphics
Memory
System
Memory
16 GB/s
40 GB/s
OpenPOWER Technology: 2.5x Faster CPU-GPU
Connection via NVLink
GPUs Bottlenecked by PCIe Bandwidth
From CPU-System Memory
NVLink Enables Fast Unified Memory Access
between CPU & GPU Memories
NVLink
System
bottleneck
GPU
GPU

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Hyperscale Data Centers,
Cloud Service Providers
High Performance Computing
and Analytics
North America Ÿ China Ÿ Europe
Leadership across industries

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Engage in the OpenPOWER community
ACTIONOUTCOMEINTEREST
Technology and Software
Innovators
Discuss areas of collaboration
and synergy in OpenPOWER.
Sign up for membership and
join a work group.
Build technical and business
relationships.
Develop
collaborative innovations with
compelling value
Innovators, Integrators,
and Partners
Deep understanding of
workload demands and
consumption preferences of
end users.
Team with innovators and
end users to drive
requirements, engage in
specific projects.
Deliver
collaborative innovations
with compelling value
End Users
Strategic imperatives and
workload demands for
performance and cost
optimization.
Require open software and
systems with choice and
flexibility.
Engage directly on system
design options.
Deploy
collaborative innovations with
compelling value

24. TAIPEI | SEP. 21-22, 2016
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