HARDWARE INNOVATION REVEAL OpenPOWER Foundaon Summit 2016 Revoluonize the Datacenter
HARDWARE INNOVATION REVEAL
OpenPOWER Foundation Summit 2016
Revolutionize the Datacenter
The Alpha Data ADM-PCIE-8K5, based on the Xilinx UltraSCALE
KU115 FPGA, brings new capabilities for application acceleration in
POWER8/9 using CAPI interfaces. The board is designed to be server
friendly for large scale datacenter deployment in a low-power, passively
cooled, low-profile PCIe card format.
OpenPOWER IBM S882LC with Asetek Rack-
CDUTM Direct to Chip Liquid Cooling. Overclock-
ing for the Fastest OpenPOWER Servers
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Brocade G620 Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch (32Gbps)
Provides high scalability in an ultradense, 1U, 64-
port switch to support high-density server virtualiza-
tion, cloud architectures, and flash-based storage en-
vironments.
BittWare’s XUSP3S is a 3/4-length PCIe x8 card based on the
Xilinx Virtex or Kintex UltraScale FPGA. The board offers
flexible memory configurations supporting up to 64 GBytes of
memory, sophisticated clocking and timing options, and four
front panel QSFP cages, each supporting up to 100 Gbps (4×25)
– including 100GbE.
Brocade VDX6740 Ethernet Fabric switch (10/40Gbps)
Delivers high performance, reduces congestion with 10/40
Gigabit Ethernet ports, low latency, 24 MB deep buffers
and Brocade VCS Technology
Brocade ICX7750 Ethernet switch (1/10/40 Gbps)
Provides modular design with expansion slots for
choice of 1/10/40 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks, offering
flexible “pay as you grow” scalability Switch
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Brocade 6510 Gen 5 Fibre Channel switch (16 Gbps)
Enables fast, easy, cost-effective storage networking scal-
ing to 48 ports support high-density server virtualization,
cloud architectures, and flash-based storage environments.
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Since 2002, E4 Computer Engineering designs and manufactures hardware solutions
for HPC and Industrial environments. The E4 OP205 is a 2U 2-socket system built
on the latest IBM's POWER8 technology and optimized to deliver high performance,
reliability, scalability, and manageability to run intensive workloads for a number of
applications (3D rendering, HPC, Oil&Gas…..)
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IBM prototype CAPI Flash Adapter combines a Xilinx FPGA
with up to 2TB of Samsung NVMe flash on a single CAPI-
enabled adapter that supports the same open-source software
interfaces as the larger "IBM Data Engine for NoSQL" allowing
fast application exploitation in a smaller, in-server form-factor.
IBM prototype designed for accelerated, in-memory computing de-
livering non-linear performance gains to servers by extending cache-
out curve with 16GB HMC memory, providing cache-level band-
width and FPGA-optimized processing. CAPI support allows the
HSA standard to quickly be adopted in server environments.
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The Edico Genome DRAGEN is the world’s first processor designed for
the ultra-rapid analysis of NGS data. The processor is integrated on a
PCIe card and available in a pre-configured Power8 server, enabling
seamless integration into bioinformatics workflows. DRAGEN is able to
analyze a whole human genome in under 26 minutes, a task that takes
traditional servers over 30 hours to complete.
IBM Memory System Innovation FPGA Card
Memory Technology Innovation card enabling
in-system experimentation with new near-memory
acceleration and prototype benchmarking.
IBM 2U/2S Power8 Prototype. It supports up to
512GB DDR4 memory, 2 NVIDIA K80 or up to 2
Alpha-Data KU3 CAPI adapters and 12x LFF/SFF
hot swap drive bays.
IBM 1U/2S Power8 Prototype It supports up 512GB
DDR4 memory, 1 NVIDIA K80 or up to 2 Alpha-
Data KU3 CAPI adapters and 4x LFF/SFF hot swap
bays.
The IBM S812LC is a 1-socket 2U system, equipped with up to 10 cores,
1TB of memory, 115GB/sec memory bandwidth, and up to 14 disk drives.
The S812LC is a Linux system optimized for workloads that are memory
and storage rich, such as Spark and Hadoop to provide immediate insights
with incredible efficiency.
IDT's 19 inch 1U rack mountable 0.75 Tbps Top of Rack Switch with 38x20
Gbps ports with 100ns latency features IDT’s RapidIO switching technology.
The chip technology used in this ToR switch appliance is used in 100% of 4G
base station deployments today. Connectivity to OpenPower Servers is done
through the RapidIO to PCIe NIC card. The ToR Switch scales up to 4.8 Tbps in
2U with 50 Gbps port Switch
Magma ExpressBox 3600-P provides flexibility for High Perfor-
mance Computing (HPC) applications by partitioning the PCIe
expansion switching into four independent domains that can be
connected to one, two, three, or four independent hosts. All PCIe
resources share one common chassis for N+1 redundant power
and cooling to minimize cost. Expansion
Inventec’s First OpenPOWER project targets to provide high-performance, scalability and flexibility for large Data Center deploy-
ments and service applications. Using IBM Centaur Memory buffer and
PLX PEX8725 switch supported 1 IBM P8NVL CPU, 16 DDR4 DIMMs and 2 nVIDIA P100 SXM2 GPUs. Through NVLINK connects
CPU and GPUs, and GPUs to bring high computing efficiency.
Mark III Systems will commercialize the first OpenPOWER-enabled system built to
the Open Compute Project design specification, which will follow the Barreleye
server design created by Rackspace, Broadcom, IBM, Ingrasys, Mellanox, Micron,
and Samsung. As a long-time IBM Premier Partner, Mark III will also offer value-
added services and expertise to clients to help them plan for, implement, and main-
tain Barreleye within the context of their existing and future technology strategies. System
INSPUR Allure - 1S or 2S 4U POWER8
4U2S Rack Server Optimized for New Data Center and
Big Data Application: Supports 2 IBM OpenPOWER Pro-
cessors, 64 DDR3—2TB, 12 PCIE Gen3 System
The IBM 2-socket 2U Power Systems S822LC for commercial computing and high
performance computing come similarly configured with up to 20 cores, 1TB of memory
and 230GB/sec memory bandwidth. The S822LC for high performance computing also
comes with two integrated NVIDIA® Tesla® K80 GPU accelerators. The two S822LC
variants will offer over 2X performance per core, 40% better price performance and
more than 2X memory bandwidth compared to x86-based E5-2699 V3 machines. System
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Prototype of IBM’s second OpenPOWER
high performance computing server with NVLink
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Mellanox ConnectX®-4 Single/Dual-Port Adapter—Supporting 100Gb/s with CAPI.
ConnectX-4 adapter cards with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI), supporting EDR
100Gb/s InfiniBand and 100Gb/s Ethernet connectivity, provide the highest perfor-
mance and most flexible solution for high-performance, Web 2.0, Cloud, data analyt-
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Microsemi® Adaptec® Series 8 SAS/SATA RAID Adapter—OPIO HCL,
lowest power 12Gbps RAID adapter in a low-profile MD2 form factor
with up to 16 internal/external ports. Provides full hardware data protec-
tion and RAID features delivering maximum throughput and IOPS for
SSD or hybrid SSD/HDD systems (8885 shown). Optional AFM-700
flash-based module provides enable instant battery-free cache protection.
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NEC ExpEther I/O Expansion Unit: x8 PCIe3.0, Two x16 slots, Quad 40Gb
QSFP+
This I/O expansion unit can support up to four full-height/full-length PCIe
cards or two double-wide GPGPUs and AUX power connectors. Customer
can add a large number of PCIe cards to a small server or workstation beyond
its capability.
NEC ExpEther HBA : x8 PCIe3.0, Dual 40Gb QSFP+
ExpEther is a technology that can extend the PCI Express
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SB7800 - Switch-IB™ 2 Managed EDR Switch.
36-port Non-blocking Managed EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Smart Switch
Mellanox provides the world’s first smart switch, enabling in-network computing
through the Co-Design and “SHArP” technology. SB7800 has the highest fabric per-
formance available in the market with up to 7Tb/s of non-blocking bandwidth with
90ns port-to-port latency. Switch
Microsemi® Adaptec® HBA 1000 Host Bus Adapter—Most resil-
ient, efficient, and easy to use SAS/SATA low-profile MD2 form
factor HBA. Up to 60% lower power consumption than other
HBAs, this is the first of Microsemi’s Smart Storage Solutions
and offers 5 skus with up to 16 native ports (8i8e shown). Card
Microsemi® Adaptec® Series 7 SAS/SATA RAID Adapter -
OPIO HCL, lowest power 24port RAID adapter for 6Gbps
systems (72405 shown). For 24 ports, card is a half length,
full height form factor. Card
NEC ExpEther I/O Expansion Unit: x8 PCIe3.0, Four x16 slots, Quad 40Gb
QSFP+
This I/O expansion unit can support up to four full-height/full-length PCIe
cards or two double-wide GPGPUs and AUX power connectors. Customer
can add a large number of PCIe cards to a small server or workstation beyond
its capability.
Expansion
Mellanox SN2700 Spectrum Ethernet Switch
The SN2700 switch provides the most predictable, highest density 100GbE
switching platform for the growing demands of today’s OpenPOWER data
centers. Spectrum 32-port 100GbE Switch is also Open Ethernet Platform
Penguin Magna 1015, designed for OCP Open Rack infrastructure
combined with an OpenPOWER Architecture, targets virtualization
workloads in Hyperscale data center. Magna 1015 provides the
memory capacity and memory bandwidth to support high virtual ma-
chine density. System
Penguin Magna 2001, powered by a single OpenPOWER Power8 gen-
eration CPU, is targeted at software development and testing on Open-
POWER architecture. Magna 2001 supports rich I/O options, including
CAPI, to support variety of I/O driven workloads.
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The OSS High Density Compute Accelerator (HDCA) is a first-of-its-
kind GPU engine that accommodates up to sixteen GPUs in a 3U
chassis and cables to one to four servers through PCIe x16 Gen3 con-
nections. The HDCA adds thousands of compute cores and hundreds
of Tflops of compute power to systems. Expansion
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The NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 is the world’s most advanced datacenter
accelerator ever built, a brand new GPU architecture to deliver the
world’s fastest compute node. Powered by four ground-breaking tech-
nologies with discontinuous jumps in performance, Tesla P100 enables
lightning-fast nodes to deliver these important workloads. Accelerator
The OSS Flash Storage Array (FSA) is a high-density flash storage
appliance that accommodates up to thirty-two flash cards in a 3U
chassis and cables to one to four servers through PCIe x16 Gen3 con-
nections. The FSA adds millions of IOPS to systems for memory-
intensive applications in the HPC market. Expansion
Penguin Magna 2002, powered by two OpenPOWER Power8 genera-
tion processors, is optimized for Accelerated Computing using NVID-
IA Tesla family of GPUs and coprocessors. Magna 2002 supports
NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPUs for Technical Computing and NVIDIA Tes-
la M40 for Machine Learning applications. System
The NL2200 is the first jointly developed product by Beijing Neu
Cloud Oriental System Technology Co., Ltd. and partners from
OpenPOWER Foundation. It can support 16/20/24 cores CPU, up
to 1TB memory, 2 HDDs, 2 GPUs, 100GB IB adapter & PCIe
SSD with NCO self-developed BMC.”
QLOGIC QLE2672 ‐ dual port 16G FC adapter:
The QLogic 2672 Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel Adapters boast in-
dustry-leading native Fibre Channel performance—achieving dual-
port, line-rate, 16Gbps Fibre Channel throughput—at extremely low
CPU utilization with full hardware offloads. Card
Semptian NSA-120 (Network&Service Accelerator) is a half-
length, low profile, PCI Express® x8 Gen3 Card,Based on
Innovative and powerful Xilinx UltraScale™ FPGA Technology.
It supports IBM Power8 and CAPI compliant based on a FPGA
XCKU060. It's your good choice for Data Center accelerating. Card
RTDS Technologies Inc. is using a 10 core OpenPOWER P8
processor to develop a new platform for simulating electromag-
netic transients in electrical utility power systems in real-time.
The simulation platform provides a real-time working model of
the power system to which actual physical power-system controls
may be connected for testing before installation. Board
Rackspace partnered with Broadcom, IBM, Ingrasys, Mel-
lanox, Micron, and Samsung to create “Barreleye” an Open-
POWER / Open Compute Platform designed for Cloud
2.0. The first Barreleye servers came online in 3Q 2015. With our first data
center shipment in process, we look forward to bringing customers aboard
within the next few months. Server
QLOGIC QLE2692 - dual port Enhanced Gen 5 (16G) FC adapter. The
QLogic® 2692 Series of Enhanced Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel (FC)
Adapter is designed for enterprise data centers that require the ultimate
in FC performance, power efficiency, reliability, and investment protec-
tion for demanding virtualized and private cloud environments. Card
QLOGIC QLE2742 - dual port Gen 6 (32G) FC adapter:
The QLogic® 2742 Gen 6 (32Gb) Fibre Channel (FC) Adapters is de-
signed to accelerate mission-critical enterprise applications, build a
highly resilient infrastructure and improve operational efficiency.
QLogic Gen 6 FC technology provides the industry’s first 32Gbps Card
QLOGIC QLE2564L - low-profile, quad port 8G FC adapter:
The QLogic 2564L 8Gb Adapters are industry’s first low profile quad port 8G
FC adapters. These adapters not only meet the needs of today’s demanding data
center requirements by providing power and virtualization optimization. These
adapters are ideal for use in low-profile servers in today’s bandwidth hungry,
high density environments. Card
QLE2562 - dual port 8G FC adapter:
The QLogic 2562 8Gb Adapters are a part of QLogic’s industry-leading
Fibre Channel technology portfolio. The adapters meet the needs of to-
day’s demanding data center requirements by providing power and vir-
tualization optimization. Card
NSA-120B: Semptian NSA-120 (Network&Service Accelerator)
is a half-length, low profile, PCI Express® x8 Gen3 Card,
Based on Innovative and powerful Xilinx UltraScale™ FPGA
Technology. It supports IBM Power8 and CAPI compliant based
on a FPGA XCKU115. It's your good choice for Data Center
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Tyan GT75-BP012 platform is a 1U POWER8-based server solu-
tion that reveals the spirit of the OpenPOWER Foundation. the
using the ppc64 architecture in the 1U single-socket system, the
TYAN GT75-BP012 provides huge memory footprint as well as
outstanding performance for HPC and server virtualization appli-
cations
The TYAN TN71-BP012 is based on the POWER8 architecture and is
designed for virtual machine and high-performance data analytics appli-
cation. With tremendous memory capacity and high-end computing
performance, the OpenPOWER standards-based system provides cus-
tomers a high price-performance ratio solution to build their customized
IT infrastructure.
ITL CP8128 on-board server is a kind of server which is designed and
developed independently based on IBM open OpenPOWER chip ar-
chitecture. ITL server supports Redhat operating system and virtual
technology. The structure of server uses module design and can satisfy
customer's customized demand of on-board server.
Saba - 2U High-Performance Data Analytics Engine.
StackVelocity has designed a high-performance platform, Saba, featuring OpenPOW-
ER™ POWER8™ and CAPI. Saba boasts leadership performance, enhances cloud
efficiency and enables open innovation on POWER. An extremely smart platform with
high number-crunching capabilities, Saba is perfect for big data analytics and hyper
performance computing applications.
Offering dual POWER8 processors in an Open Compute form factor, Barreleye
aims to transform the data center of tomorrow. With large memory footprint
and flexible I/O options, including CAPI enabled slots, it is designed to handle
the toughest cloud application. StackVelocity is planning to integrate and dis-
tribute this server as part of its cloud infrastructure services business unit.
Suzhou PowerCore CP1
POWER chip for the China market. Customized for
Suzhou PowerCore, Zoom Netcom is using the CP1
in their RedPOWER servers.
Wistron prototype Dark King – 4 Sockets POWER8 Serv-
er with 128 DIMMs—Dark King is a conceptual 4U 4-
socket system built on POWER8 server with 128 DIMMs
and CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface) to
run intensive workloads for large scale data analysis.
ITL I1016 is a single-threaded server server ITL launched a
meet the needs of SMEs and design. It can be used as data and
application server that supports disk arrays, SAS, SCSI, RAID,
and other functions.
Redpower C210 is the world's first OpenPOWER technology based 2-socket serv-
er, which have been GA released in October 2015. By selecting different pro-
cessing capacity, memory capacity and ability to meet the various application
requirements such as IO, database, virtual memory, calculation oriented applica-
tion. In dealing with similar work load, C210 server can achieve more excellent
throughput with higher economic benefits. System
Redpower P210 is the latest NVDIA NVLink technology based high-
performance GPU Server, using OpenPOWER8+ CPU, support 4 NVLink
GPU, 1T Memory Capacity. In dealing with similar work load, C210 and
C220 server can achieve more excellent throughput with higher economic
benefits. System
Wistron Polaris – 2 Sockets POWER8 Server with Nvidia
GPUs—Polaris is a ready-to-ship 2U 2-socket system built
on POWER8 with CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor
Interface) to deliver high performance, reliability, scalabil-
ity in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. System
Wistron Polaris Plus - 2 Sockets POWER8 w/NVlink
Server, Up to four NVIDIA Pascal GPU accelerators.
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