MONTPELLIER, France, July 2,
2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM), in collaboration with
NVIDIA and Mellanox, today announced the establishment of a POWER
Acceleration and Design Center in Montpellier, France to advance the development of
data-intensive research, industrial, and commercial
applications.
Born out of the collaborative spirit fostered by the OpenPOWER
Foundation – a community co-founded in part by IBM, NVIDIA and
Mellanox supporting open development on top of the POWER
architecture – the new Center provides commercial and open-source
software developers with technical assistance to enable them to
develop high performance computing (HPC) applications.
Technical experts from IBM, NVIDIA and Mellanox will help
developers take advantage of OpenPOWER systems leveraging IBM's
open and licensable POWER architecture with the NVIDIA Tesla
Accelerated Computing Platform and Mellanox InfiniBand networking
solutions. These are the class of systems developed collaboratively
with the U.S. Department of Energy for the next generation Sierra
and Summit supercomputers and to be used by the United Kingdom's
Science and Technology Facilities Council's Hartree Centre for big
data research.
In addition to expanding the software and solution ecosystem
around OpenPOWER, this new collaboration between the three
companies will create opportunities for software designers to
acquire advanced HPC skills and drive the development of new
technologies to bring value to customers globally.
The Center will be led by a team of experts from NVIDIA and
Mellanox along with leading scientists from IBM Client Center
Montpellier (France) and IBM
Research Zurich (Switzerland). The Montpellier-based center is the second of its
kind, complementing the previously announced center in Germany
established in concert with IBM, NVIDIA and the Jülich
Supercomputing Center in November.
"Our launch of this new Center reinforces IBM's commitment to
open-source collaboration and is a next step in expanding the
software and solution ecosystem around OpenPOWER," said
Dave Turek, IBM's Vice President of
HPC Market Engagement. "Teaming with NVIDIA and Mellanox, the
Center will allow us to leverage the strengths of each of our
companies to extend innovation and bring higher value to our
customers around the world."
"Increasing computational performance while minimizing energy
consumption is a challenge the industry must overcome in the race
to exascale computing," said Stefan
Kraemer, director of HPC Business Development, EMEA, at
NVIDIA. "By providing systems combining IBM Power CPUs with GPU
accelerators and the NVIDIA NVLink™ high-speed GPU interconnect
technology, we can help the new Center address both objectives,
enabling scientists to achieve new breakthroughs in their
research."
"The new POWER Acceleration and Design Center will help
scientists and engineers address the grand challenges facing
society in the fields of energy and environment, information and
health care using the most advanced HPC architectures and
technologies," said Gilad Shainer,
vice president of marketing, Mellanox Technologies. "Mellanox
InfiniBand networking solutions offer more than a decade of
experience building the world's highest performing networks, and
are uniquely based on an offload-architecture. Only Mellanox
offloads data movement, management and even data manipulations (for
example Message Passing - MPI collective communications) which are
performed at the network level, enabling more valuable CPU cycles
to be dedicated to the research applications."
As founding members of the OpenPOWER Foundation, IBM, NVIDIA,
and Mellanox share a common vision to bring a new class of systems
to market faster to tackle today's big data challenges.
About the OpenPOWER Foundation
The OpenPOWER Foundation is an open technical community based on
the POWER architecture, enabling collaborative development and
opportunity for member differentiation and industry growth. The
goal of the Foundation is to create an open ecosystem, using the
POWER architecture to share expertise, investment, and server-class
intellectual property to serve the evolving needs of customers and
industry. Founded in December
2013, the organization now has over 130 members
worldwide.
For more information, visit www.openpowerfoundation.org.
Media Contact:
Kristin Bryson, IBM Media
Relations, 914-766-4221, kabryson@us.ibm.com
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