 Hello and welcome to the open power foundation update My name is James Colana. I'm the executive director of the open power foundation We also have Mindy Fermanek who was the president of the open power foundation today And so you might be wondering Who I am. I'm actually a new face within the foundation. I recently joined And I have a background in open source. I previously co-founded a Open-source cloud startup called hyper.sh where we were focused on container security We actually co-created the Kata container project in collaboration with Intel. I have worked extensively with the LF actually and the CNCF Along with Google's team at Kubernetes and Docker. I have a former Red Hatter Working in their product open stack group As well as I worked in the telecommunication space for AT&T working on open source Mostly focused on their open stack telco cloud. I'm incredibly excited about open power and The foundation and what we have ahead and I'm really excited to be helping Spearhead and and lead all the new initiatives that we want to get underway And so a little bit about open power. So we are open innovation. We've been around since 2013 We have over 350 members Over a hundred innovations that we've done throughout the years. We have a hundred and fifty plus open power ready certified products as well as a 40 plus different Systems that we're currently shipping through our members and a number of collaborative innovations underway So as you can see we have a wide swath of members that are part of the foundation Ranging from research and HPC to software and integrations IO accelerators Boards and systems as well as all the way down to the chips and so a little bit of history so We did start in 2013 and we were founded mostly around getting more people collaborative Contributions around the P9 chip from IBM, but power has been around since the 90s it's a very stable and mature architecture and We've 2019 wasn't actually a great year for us It was a solid year it was a year that set up 2020 and the solid foundation for us moving forward because we open sourced Are fully open sourced our isa our instructions that architecture and this includes all the patent rights, which is very Very useful for people who actually want to build new silicon and we actually open sourced Reference design called the micro watt, which is a soft core implementation of the power isa as well as I think Really fundamental to our success in the future is that we moved into an open governance and joined the Lenox foundation so the micro watt is A soft core implementation of the power isa and this was an FPGA targeted Implementation it's fully open source. It's all up on github We had over 630 plus commits This runs the ported micro python to it. They actually ported those Zephyr IOT OS And they actually used fully open source ghdl tools for synthesis And it is recently ported to the chisel Programming language and they called it the chisel watt And also recently this past month. We are able to now boot Linux on this soft core, which is amazing So a lot of great work coming out of the micro watt Soft core implementation and allows people to Developers especially to get involved to understand how the power architecture works and it's easy to get up and running So a little bit talk about the actual open model around our eyes So why did we open source to the the isa itself and this is mostly just for open innovation, right? So that people can actually take the power architecture And you have full rights to create distribute license and sell power isa cores This is you know represented in software or hardware and integrated circuitry The key caveat here is that you we require some compliance In order to maintain the already mature software ecosystem that the power architecture has So in order to get those patent rights, you need to make sure that your power isa chips are compliant with the isa itself But you also have freedom of choice. So we actually have subsets of the Architecture and you have this base subset that you typically start with but then you can also add additional Implementation and compliant features on top of that. So it's really flexible and how you're going to consume and use The power architecture in the isa and then by moving under the Linux foundation and having a Open power foundation at a work group Around the power isa itself We allow for contributions from members and non-members alike and the beauty about this is that you can Do what you need with the power isa And work with a variety of different members who have complementary needs as yours And so how we think about computing at the Open power foundation is Moving forward as we see the Moore's law is slowing or ending Things are going to be moving towards more domain specific. We're going to start seeing More custom chips more custom CPU more custom computing tailored towards the domain that they're targeting You're going to start seeing a lot more heterogeneous computing. This has already happened in power architecture is a driver in this But most importantly, I think you're going to start seeing open innovation You're going to start seeing companies come together and members companies come together to actually Deliver true innovation around an open isa and this is going to occur across the entire hardware stack It's not going to just be limited to the silicon It's going to be across accelerators and software and everything else and so what my vision coming on New to the open power foundation is to really energize and to adopt the model that energizes our member companies to actually devote engineering resources to help to Drive this ecosystem that we already have and to drive it towards an open collaborative co-development of this common Power IP and cores and tools and software and systems It's not just about the isa itself, but it's actually about getting IP out there for people to consume and to get a leg up So how are we going to accelerate this? Well, we're going to adopt Slightly different working group structure than what we've typically had So we're going to focus around use cases and industry segments We've currently have work groups that are mostly around specific technologies and those will still exist But and they will cut across all the different segments But we really need to tease out that value proposition in the use cases so that all the member companies can identify where they sit and how they can contribute and the other thing by moving under the LF the benefit here is Is really being able to leverage all the knowledge that the Linux Foundation has and in driving Really thriving ecosystems and we'll be able to now partner and collaborate with all the other LF projects That will be able to consume the power architecture and this includes risk five and chips alliance Which focus on other open isa as well as IP around hardware we're going to be working with the the AI group as well as the networking and and Automotive grade Linux and hyper ledger and CNCF all these groups We potentially now have the ability to collaborate and allow our member companies to see how they can leverage These foundations and these projects as well and the whole point of this and the goal It's to really create that feedback loop if you look at it from a product perspective We need these groups to inform us on what the requirements are so that we can adopt the right feature sets within the isa itself to accelerate Those type of workloads and into enhance the performance of those workloads So the current open power work group structure as it was looting to is more around Specific technologies, but we have a number of work groups already set up and they will still exist moving forward around you know physical science machine learning accelerated Applications, we also have this open power ready, which is a certification around Products and solutions that come out that I adhere to the open power isa and then we have accelerators and Work groups focused on memory and IO as well as the system software that runs on top of power and all the different hardware and accelerators and in networking interfaces that Will be used in power systems where We want to be Is to have this set of common components and this is I think foundational to us moving forward where we need to be able to think a couple steps ahead for our members and Develop this reference IP So that it de-risks their ability to adopt the open power platform And the goal here is that it's going to be based on segments and it's going to be based on use cases so they'll be able to pick this pick up this reference IP and Customize it based on the vertical that you're you're going after and it'll make it very easy and very intuitive for our member companies To see where they fit in this landscape and who they can potentially work with who can they collaborate with? To accelerate their their solutions So the 2020 focus areas for the open power foundation is around access To these open power systems so that people developers Can actually get get access and we start developing importing applications to the power architecture start testing out their solutions doing regression testing if you're doing a CICD type pipelines And this is going to be through standing up cloud resources as well as technology hubs at universities And other member companies We're going to start establishing an actual training curriculum Around the open power so that people can understand what how the mechanics of it at the low level really work We're going to have a very engaged and productive technical working groups And we're going to align around those use cases that are specific and valuable to our member companies We're also going to be having our summits our open power summits and industry events will be Participants as well We're going to have a number of meet-ups and workshops devoted towards developers and end users alike and then we're going to showcase what our members are doing through case studies and Proof of concepts and demonstrating that business value of what power can actually deliver And so it's a great time to engage with the open power community and there's many ways to get involved We have the technical steering committee. We have the work groups. We have gonna have meet-ups and summits You're gonna be able to certify your your solutions You're gonna be able to market what you've done and by can collaborating with our marketing committee but most importantly, I think by getting engaged you'll be able to define the technical direction of the open power isa Towards your needs and to help your business and your Community Really take off and grow so Along those lines. We actually are announcing the open power summit 2020 and this is going to be in September It's going to be a fully virtual event And you can start submitting your CFPs on our website at openpowerfoundation.work And so I'm gonna now open it up for questions. Thank you actually before we Get to questions. We actually have another announcement that we made earlier today And Mindy if you wanted to Talk through this the big thing that we announced today is the a2i power processor and open sourcing and this is a Pretty big announcement for us. So This is actually one that was designed for the edge of network and But it was actually used in a number of blue jean q high-performance computing general-purpose processing Systems so it's about a decade old, but it's still very relevant and Incredibly high-performance. So it's 64 bit. It's based on an older power isa And this is where we're really looking for the community to get involved to bring it up to compliance with our 3.1 spec Of the isa itself But it has a four-way SMT It's in order execution is dynamic branching And also they've they've added the axi support as well So they know that that's a community thing that that was was actually asked for by the community So it's a it's a great core and it's a great starting point for us to kind of build momentum around the power architecture Making it easier. It's a full FPGA environment as well so we can start testing this out on a number of different boards To get you access and get you start working in on on Customizing it to your needs into your workloads So we're really excited about this announcement and looking forward to connecting with the community and Bringing this to the forefront. Thank you So the first question that we're seeing is Do you use a use case with a specific vertical that uses open power in practice now? So this is So mostly what power has been used in in enterprise and high performance Applications, so you think of like SAP HANA uses power systems but for What we're trying to move forward and and to get the community involvement is around Expanding that scope into a number of different verticals and segments and this a to I core is actually going to help in that