Google, IBM, Mellanox, NVIDIA and Tyan form the data center solution development team

Google, IBM, Mellanox, NVIDIA and Tyan have announced plans to form the OpenPOWER Consortium, an open consortium of developers of solutions based on IBM's POWER technology. The task of unification is to create advanced server, network, storage and processor technologies in order to provide greater freedom of choice for developers of large-scale and cloud-based data centers of the new generation.

The initiative for the first time offers POWER hardware and software for use in open source development, as well as intellectual property for licensing, thereby significantly expanding the circle of developers on this platform. The consortium will provide participants with the opportunity to use software and hardware tools POWER, responsible for managing the basic functions of the chip. Thus, the OpenPOWER Consortium will provide developers with exceptional flexibility in the process of creating new server hardware configurations for various levels of computational load.

“ The founding companies of the OpenPOWER Consortium represent a new generation of innovative data center building, ” said Steve Mills, senior vice president and executive director of IBM Software & Systems. - " Combining our potential and resources around the POWER architecture will help improve the use of innovative solutions in the industry. For the first time, developers have access to an expanded set of server technologies, and this model of" collaborative development "will change the design and deployment of data center hardware ."
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" We are pleased to be part of the OpenPOWER Consortium and in its work on introducing innovative ideas, as well as improving the performance and efficiency of advanced data center solutions ," said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing for Mellanox. - " Open source and collaborative development are key to developing innovative computer platforms and improving work with scalable and evolving applications in high performance, Web 2.0 and cloud computing areas. Mellanox's goal is to provide the most efficient intersystem solution for all computing and CPU architectures and provide the highest return on investment for our users . "



The first joint work within the framework of the merger will be carried out by NVIDIA and IBM - the companies will work on integrating the ecosystems CUDA GPU and POWER.

"The OpenPOWER Consortium combines a set of hardware, system software and enterprise applications that will allow you to create powerful computing systems based on NVIDIA graphics processors and POWER CPUs ," notes Sumit Gupta, CEO of Tesla Accelerated Computing Business. in nvidia.

" OpenPOWER will bring fresh solutions to data centers ," said Albert Mu, CEO of Tyan Computer and Vice President of MiTAC International Corp. - " A powerful ecosystem built around OpenPOWER will offer the market a number of new technological solutions and will provide more opportunities for Tyan customers ."

OpenPOWER is open to any company that is committed to the open development of innovative solutions on the POWER platform. More information about the consortium and the conditions of participation can be obtained by e-mail at info@open-power.org.