“Google, IBM, Mellanox, NVIDIA, and Tyan today announced plans to form the OpenPOWER Consortium – an open development alliance based on IBM’s POWER microprocessor architecture. The Consortium intends to build advanced server, networking, storage and GPU-acceleration technology aimed at delivering more choice, control and flexibility to developers of next-generation, hyperscale and cloud data centers.”
Link to Wall Street Journal Article
This is pretty clear evidence that IBM aggressively moving the POWER platform from a proprietary basis to an open, collaborative platform. The intended goal is to spur innovation and expansion across the entire POWER architecture stack, from hardware, through firmware and virtualization, all the way up to the operating systems.
It appears that IBM and the other consortium members have decided that the collaboration is best way to meet future computing requirements. This collaboration will include the ability for consortium members to share intellectual property and release new products based on the POWER architecture.
The OpenPOWER Consortium should bring the same kind of vigorous innovation seen with open source software, to the POWER hardware platform. The result of this consortium should be an expansion of the POWER community and more choices for information technology providers in the future.
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Jay is the Linux product line manager at Wind River Systems, responsible for embedded Linux operating system products including Wind River Linux and Wind River Linux Distro.
Prior to Wind River, Jay was responsible for the SUSE Linux for High-Performance Computing, SUSE Linux for Arm, and SUSE Linux for Power servers. Jay released the first commercially supported Linux distribution for Arm in 2016.
Jay has built an extensive career in product management based on being a bridge between customers and engineering teams. He has extensive experience in many areas including product positioning, driving future product directions, using social media for client collaboration, and evangelizing the capabilities and future directions of enterprise products.
Jay had a long career at IBM including many roles in the Power and Cloud Engineering and Offering teams including being the product management owner for the AIX Unix operating system.
In addition to his product management experience, Jay has held a variety of technology roles at including product marketing, manager of a technical architecture team, briefing center staff, SAP systems management consultant, and as a system programmer and administrator
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