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OCP China Day 2023 | Inspur Power Commercial Systems joins hands with OPF to accelerate the implementation of POWER open source, open innovation
This guest blog, from IPS, has been translated from the [original post](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Vh291sS8XrIvyGFumM4qqA)

OCP China Day 2023 | Inspur Power Commercial Systems (IPS) joins hands with OPF to accelerate the implementation of POWER open source, open innovation

{{< image src="blog/OCP_China_Blog_image1.jpeg" >}}

On August 10, the 2023 Open Computing China Community Technology Summit (OCP China Day 2023) with the theme of "Open Momentum: Intelligent, Scalable, and Sustainable" was held in Beijing. In the age of wisdom, computing diversification, application diversification, and technological complexity are driving a new round of transformation in the data center. The open source and open community has become an important force to promote continuous innovation in the data center. Through global collaboration and innovation, we will work together to solve the problem of data center infrastructure. Major issues such as iteration and sustainable development.

Five open communities gather, open source and openness break the boundaries of innovation
Five open communities gather, to break the boundaries through open innovation

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Meow Yee, Chairman of the OpenPOWER Foundation
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The deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, as well as the digital world and the physical world, is driving data centers to accelerate innovation. However, increasingly complex technologies and new applications make it increasingly difficult for information technology service providers and enterprises to control the comprehensive innovation of data centers. Various open source and open communities with global collaboration as the core purpose have emerged as the times require, and have gradually become an important force for data center innovation.

In consideration of the coordinated development of data center software and hardware, cross-community cooperation has been increasingly valued by open source community leaders and members. This summit brought together community leaders from five open communities and organizations, including OCP, OCTC Open Computing Standard Working Committee, OpenPOWER Foundation (OPF), Dragon Lizard Community, and CXL Technology Alliance , to discuss how to build a highly collaborative software and hardware environment from different perspectives. Data center infrastructure.
In consideration of the coordinated development of data center software and hardware, cross-community cooperation has been increasingly valued by open source community leaders and members. This summit brought together community leaders from five open communities and organizations, including OCP, OCTC Open Computing Standard Working Committee, OpenPOWER Foundation (OPF), Dragon Lizard Community, and CXL Technology Alliance , to discuss how to build a highly collaborative software and hardware environment from different perspectives.

Meow Yee, chairman of the OpenPOWER Foundation (OPF) , said that open computing makes hardware agile innovation possible, and its value has been repeatedly verified in the past ten years. The OpenPOWER Foundation is committed to fully exploring the leading technical advantages of OpenPOWER-related assets such as Power ISA, Open FirmWare, and Power Cores, actively uniting member organizations all over the world, and building a more open, collaborative and win-win ecosystem, which not only accelerates innovation in the open hardware industry, but also At the same time support and accelerate the innovation of open source software.
Meow Yee, President of the OpenPOWER Foundation (OPF) , said that open computing makes hardware agile innovation possible, and its value has been repeatedly verified in the past ten years. The OpenPOWER Foundation is committed to fully exploring the leading technical advantages of OpenPOWER-related assets such as Power ISA, Open FirmWare, and Power Cores, actively uniting member organizations all over the world, and building a more open, collaborative and win-win ecosystem, which not only accelerates innovation in the open hardware industry, but also at the same time supports and accelerates the innovation of open source software.

As digital technology becomes more and more complex, the progress of the community depends on inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of open source and openness. Through a friendly and smooth collaborative development process and a complete community governance mechanism, while strengthening cross-community cooperation and sharing, and constantly expanding the boundaries of innovation.
As digital technology becomes more and more complex, the progress of the community depends on inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of open source and open collaboration. Through a friendly and smooth collaborative development process and a complete community governance mechanism, while strengthening cross-community cooperation and sharing, and constantly expanding the boundaries of innovation.

Open Computing Accelerates Hardware Innovation, and the Power Technology Ecosystem Is Gradually Perfecting
**Open Computing Accelerates Hardware Innovation, and expands the OpenPOWER Technology Ecosystem**

The rise of open computing has greatly accelerated the pace of hardware innovation. The unique mode of technological innovation and exquisite design thinking are the core of open computing's continuous growth, while the construction of standards is the basis for the implementation of open computing. Thanks to open computing's equal emphasis on the development of technology and standards, more and more users can enjoy the dividends of open technology, and the spirit of open source and openness is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The rise of open computing has greatly accelerated the pace of hardware innovation. The unique mode of technological innovation and unique design thinking are the core of open computing's continuous growth, while the construction of standards is the basis for the implementation of open computing. Thanks to open computing's equal emphasis on the development of technology and standards, more and more users can enjoy the dividends of open technology, and the spirit of open source and open collaboraiton becomes more deeply rooted within the technology community.

In fact, more and more OCP community members and users are paying more and more attention to technical solutions for sustainable development of data centers, and sustainable development has become a community consensus. The OpenPOWER Foundation promotes open innovation through core technologies such as open processors, memory interconnection interfaces, and peripheral device interconnection interfaces, as well as specifications, compliance testing, and product SIGs, and provides open ecological hardware and software services for more than 300 members. , to jointly build the Power ecosystem, promote community collaboration and win-win results, and achieve sustainable development.
In fact, more and more OCP community members and users are paying more and more attention to technical solutions for sustainable development of data centers, and sustainable development has become a community consensus. The OpenPOWER Foundation promotes open innovation through core technologies such as open processors, memory interconnection interfaces, and peripheral device interconnection interfaces, as well as specifications, compliance testing, and product SIGs, and provides open hardware and software services for more than 300 members. , to jointly build the POWER ecosystem, promote community collaboration, and achieve sustainable development.

With the open source of Power Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), Power has become the only commercial architecture with a completely open system in the industry. Relying on OpenPOWER technology, Inspur commercial machines participate in processor customization and Open Consistent Acceleration Processor Interface (OpenCAPI) and open OMI and other design technology research and standard formulation, fully exploit Power's leading enterprise-level computing capabilities, and independently design and develop three generations of ten products covering distributed storage, high-performance computing, high-density computing, big data computing and other fields The remaining Inspur K1 Power FP series servers accelerate the implementation of Power architecture innovations.
With the open source of POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), POWER has become the only commercial architecture with a completely open system in the industry. Relying on POWER technology, IPS participates in OpenPOWER server design and development, OpenCAPI, and OMI design technology standards, to fully exploit POWER's leading enterprise-level computing capabilities. IPS has also designed and developed three generations of POWER products covering distributed storage, high-performance computing, high-density computing, big data computing and other fields. The Inspur K1 Power FP series servers accelerate the implementation of Power architecture innovations.

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Yang Xu Deputy General Manager of Inspur Commercial Machinery Co., Ltd.
{{< image src="blog/OCP_China_Blog_image3.jpeg" caption="Yang Xu Deputy General Manager of Inspur Power Commercial Systems" >}}

The new-generation Inspur K1 Power FP5280G3 server, which adopts industry-leading dual-chip module technology and many other innovative technologies, also appeared in the OCP China Day exhibition area, which can flexibly respond to application requirements such as " general computing, large-capacity storage, hierarchical storage, and IO-intensive" , favored by the participants.
The new-generation Inspur K1 Power FP5280G3 server, which adopts industry-leading dual-chip module technology and many other innovative technologies, also appeared in the OCP China Day exhibition area, which can flexibly respond to application requirements such as "general computing, large-capacity storage, hierarchical storage, and IO-intensive" , favored by the participants.

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The new generation of Inspur K1 Power FP5280G3 server attracts attention
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As a member of the OpenPOWER Foundation, Hexin Technology Co., Ltd., based on the open source RISC instruction set architecture, has completed the assimilation and innovation of Power processor source codes and patents, and has developed domestic and international leading high-end server processor chips. The HX-C series has a leading virtualization platform and heterogeneous expansion capabilities. Inspur Commercial Machines has joined hands with Hexin Technology to create Inspur K1 Power CP series nationally-produced servers based on HX-C domestic processors, which will further promote the high-quality development of China's ICT industry.
As a member of the OpenPOWER Foundation, Hexin Technology Co., Ltd., has developed leading high-end server processor chips for both domestic and international markets, based on the fully open source POWER architecture, and integrating the latest innovation of POWER processor technologies. The HX-C series has a leading virtualization platform and heterogeneous expansion capabilities. Inspur Power Commercial Systems has joined hands with Hexin Technology to create Inspur K1 Power CP series nationally-produced servers based on HX-C domestic processors, which will further promote the high-quality development of China's ICT industry.

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Xu Yue Hexin Technology Co., Ltd. chip business leader
{{< image src="blog/OCP_China_Blog_image6.jpeg" caption="Xu Yue Hexin Technology Co., Ltd. chip business leader" >}}

Driven by the idea of ​collaborative development of software and hardware, the integration of open source software and open hardware is accelerating, and open source technology will profoundly change the division of labor and cooperation mode of the global IT industry. In the future, more and more cross-community cooperation will further break the boundaries of innovation, and endow infinite possibilities for business innovation with a more open data center.
Driven by the idea of collaborative development of software and hardware, the integration of open source software and open hardware is accelerating, and open source technology will profoundly change the division of labor and cooperation mode of the global IT industry. In the future, more and more cross-community cooperation will further break the boundaries of innovation, and endow infinite possibilities for business innovation with a more open data center.

Since 2019, OCP China Day has become an annual event where industry leaders discuss open computing technology and innovation. This summit is hosted by OCP, the world's largest open computing community, and organized by Inspur Information. It focuses on issues such as data center infrastructure innovation and sustainable development, open computing innovation and ecological construction, and community collaborative innovation . Community leaders including the Committee, OpenPOWER Foundation (OPF), Dragon Lizard Community, CXL Technology Alliance, etc., technical experts, industry experts, and more than a thousand IT engineers and data center practitioners participated in the conference.


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title: OpenROAD and OpenPOWER Microwatt core for low-power ASIC applications
author: Ganesan Narayanasamy
tags:
- openpower
- adg
- academic
- openroad
date: 2024-01-25
draft: false
---
# OpenROAD and OpenPOWER - Microwatt core for low-power ASIC applications

## OpenPOWER for Energy-efficient applications

The [OpenPOWER](https://openpowerfoundation.org) microwatt processor is an open-source soft process core implementation of the IBM [POWER ISA](https://openpowerfoundation.org/specifications/isa/) architecture that is designed to be highly energy-efficient. This processor is an example of the growing trend of designing low-power processors that can be used in a variety of applications, including mobile devices, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and more.

### Microwatt
Microwatt is a multi-core processor capable of running at up to 2.3 GHz and using the Power ISA v3.0 specification. It can run on lower cost FPGAs. It has a memory management unit, privilege modes, interrupts, a floating-point unit, an interrupt controller and a level-2 cache, so that it can boot Linux.

The Microwatt processor was implemented using the [OpenROAD](https://theopenroadproject.org/) native design flow - [OpenROAD-flow-scripts](https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD-flow-scripts) . It is available as part of the EDA cloud native solution in OpenPOWER. OpenROAD delivers an autonomous, No-Human-In-Loop, fully-integrated RTL-GDSII flow for the design of digital integrated circuits across a range of technologies. OpenROAD includes specific features for low power design that enabled the design to specification for Microwatt.

## Microwatt Design Flow using OpenROAD

The figures below show the OpenROAD flow using [OpenROAD-flow-scripts](https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD-flow-scripts)

### OpenROAD High-level Flow

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### OpenROAD Flow Scripts - A detailed Physical Implementation Flow

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## Design Methodology

Microwatt was implemented using Skywater130nm (What production versions are supported- Is there a link to share about it? It consists of 6 macros and over 800K standard cells.

The hardware description for Microwatt was defined using Verilog in OpenPOWER. The RTL was synthesized in OpenROAD using Yosys to obtain a power-efficient mapping. [OpenSTA](https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenSTA) is an integrated and incremental timing and power analysis engine built into OpenROAD.

### Synthesis
The OpenROAD flow uses a synthesized netlist from Yosys to transform the RTL into an elaborated design with corresponding technology mapped primitives to generate an optimized netlist based on the input on specified timing constraints. This netlist was used to create the floorplan for detailed physical implementation.

### Placement and Routing

#### Floorplan Import design

Microwatt has 6 macros that were placed using the automatic macro placement in ORFS.

- RAM512 1 392.925
- RAM32 1RW1R
- Multiply_add_64x64
- RAM32_1RW1R
- Microwatt_FP_DFFRFile
- Multiply_add_64x64

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macro placement

### Power Distribution

There are 5 metal layers in total in Microwatt. Metal 1 is horizontal and M2 is vertical followed by M3, M4 and M5 in horizontal direction. Power distribution is using M1, M4 and M5. The M1 layer is horizontal on the standard cell rails to enable power for the standard cells. VIA2 and VIA3 power vias are dropped. M4 power stripes and M5 power stripes are drawn. An alternate pattern of VSS and VDD pattern is followed

The figure below shows the PDN grid generated.

This is the complete PDN of the floor plan.

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### Placement

Global Placement places standard cells to minimize wire length and avoid congestion during routing. Detailed placement further legalizes standard cell placement to remove overlaps and fix orientation for optimal routing. This step also includes the use of the resizer to optimize timing using techniques like buffer insertion, sizing, pin swapping etc.

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Figure: Placement Density View

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Figure: Placement Optimization by Resizer

### Clock Tree Synthesis

ORFS automatically synthesizes clock trees to meet timing constraints and inserts buffers as needed to balance skew on high fanout nets. Filler cells are also added to meet manufacturing density requirements.

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Figure: ext_clk Clock Tree Viewer

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Figure: jtag_tck Clock Tree Viewer

### Timing Analysis

OpenROAD includes a built-in STA engine that is used to incrementally analyze timing at various flow stages. The GUI enables easy visualization of timing paths and setup/hold checks.

Shown below are post-CTS timing views for setup and hold times.

#### Setup Timing Path

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Figure: Setup Timing Path

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Figure: Hold Timing Path

#### Routing

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Figure: Routing Congestion View

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Figure: Detail Routing

#### Show CTS after detailed placement.

CTS is shown below by highlighting the clock nets before and after CTS

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Figure: ext_clk source CTS

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Figure: jtag tck source CTS

#### How was timing optimization done using the resizer repair commands?

Using resizer commands the following is done at the placement step. The details are available in 3_4_resizer.log

1) 51 input buffers are added
2) 87 output buffers are added
3) 7237 buffers are added in 9711 nets
4) 23377 instances are resized

#### What tradeoffs were made for timing vs power?

We optimize for timing and less so for power. We do have some power recovery features in development that should be available soon.

#### Where is the static IR estimation report?

In 6_report.log when using ORFS

#### Did you run a simulation for power analysis?

We can provide a VCD (toggle counts) from simulation for improved accuracy. OR doesn't do simulation itself.

#### What kind of signoff was used to verify final timing and power (PrimeTime, Calibre etc.)

We have not done any signoff for final timing and power using Prime Time & Calibre.Only OpenROAD flow is being executed.

### Physical Verification

Once the physical layout (i.e., the GDS file) is complete, the design is ready for final verification and sign-off. This involves running a series of tests to ensure that the design meets all of the necessary requirements and specifications. Any issues that are found can be addressed, and the design can be re-synthesized and re-implemented until it meets all of the necessary criteria.

Finally, the design is ready for fabrication. The GDSII layout file is sent to a foundry, where the physical chip is manufactured. Once the chip is fabricated, it can be assembled into a larger system or device, such as a mobile phone or IoT device.

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Figure: Microwatt Layout generated through OpenROAD

## Results

Showcase results here. Final GDSII. Power and Timing achieved, run times and state the potential for such application development for the future.


Worstcase voltage:1.80e+00 V
Average IR Drop : 4.62e-04 V
Worstcase IR Drop: 1.95e-03 V

As a result, it is possible to create highly efficient and effective microwatt processors that can be used in a variety of different devices and applications, from mobile phones to IoT devices and beyond. The combination of the OpenPOWER microwatt processor and the OpenROAD design flow represents a powerful toolset for designers looking to create low-power, high-performance processors for modern electronics.

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title: "Open Compute Regional Summit 2024 - Future Technologies Symposium"
eventdates:
from: 2024-04-24
eventplace: Lisbon, Portugal
register: https://2024ocpregional.fnvirtual.app/
schedule: https://2024ocpregional.fnvirtual.app/a/schedule/
date: 2024-04-21
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The OCP Regional Summit in Europe serves as a platform where technical and business leaders from EMEA come together to tackle crucial issues related to data center sustainability, energy efficiency, and heat reuse. The focus is on exploring how innovations from hyperscale data center operators can contribute to solving these challenges. The Summit also highlights deployments of specific OCP-recognized data center equipment in the EMEA region.

```
OPF FTS Talk
Time: 3:55pm – 4:15pm
Location: Lisbon Congress Centre
```

The OpenPOWER Foundation will be sharing a talk with Jabil in the Future Technologies Symposium.

"Large Memory Server Design Overview"
Abstract:
With the advancement of AI workloads and their increasingly large data set requirements, the need for high memory capacity and density is becoming paramount for the industry. There have been advances in memory connectivity that promise to deliver solutions that will meet these needs. This specification shows a design that utilizes two of these technologies, OpenCAPI Memory Interface (OMI) and Compute Express Link (CXL), to deliver from 24TB to a potentially jaw-dropping 32TB of memory in an air-cooled, single socket OCP DC-MHS inspired 19’’ 2U chassis. This design solution, a collaboration between the OpenPower Foundation, Jabil Inc.,Raptor Computing Systems, SAP, and Wooden Data Center, is currently in the design phase. In this specification, physical limitations, interconnects, and power/thermal constraints will be highlighted. The end goal would be to contribute this design specification to the OCP community.
[Video Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UOMUHFFYvQ)

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title: "Open Hardware and Software Mini Summit at the Open Source Summit North America"
eventdates:
from: 2024-04-15
eventplace: Seattle, US
register: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/register/
schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F6hJQL8nU538OlGDGiOcrvSGuDMbCbK4R37qGrq5qSg/edit?usp=sharing
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```
Time: 1:00pm – 5:45pm
Location: Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Registration Cost: $15
```


This half day program will Introduce the audience to the many aspects of open source hardware and software development, and how it is helping the industry to accelerate beyond what Moore’s law has predicted.


Talks will cover numerous aspects of hardware / software development and provide motivation to learn more about the challenges of open hardware and software design together.


Agenda:

- How can software developers help keep Moore’s law alive?
- Open Hardware Design: Lessons Learned from OSS
- Understanding hardware security vulnerabilities : Hardware Bill of Materials
- Scaling hardware design: squeezing every bit of performance of the open source OpenROAD ASIC toolchain
- Accelerating EDA Flows in the AWS Cloud
- An Introduction to RISC-V
- Accelerating the RISC-V Software Development Ecosystem
- Caliptra: open source Root of Trust
- Getting “Ware” You Need to Go – Managing OpenPOWER Hardware with Software (Part 1)
- Getting “Ware” You Need to Go – AI Software on OpenPOWER Hardware (Part 2)

@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
title: 'High-Performance-Computing SIG'
wgtype: sig
image: thumb-3.jpg
chair:
- allancantle
#chair:
#- allancantle
participation: Public
date: 2021-03-15
draft: false

@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: 'Instruction Set Architecture TWG'
wgtype: twg
image: thumb-5.jpg
chair:
- paulmackerras
- bradfrey
participation: Members
git: https://git.openpower.foundation/isa/
discussion: https://discuss.openpower.foundation/c/twg/isa

@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: 'LibreBMC SIG'
wgtype: sig
image: thumb-6.jpg
chair:
- toddrosedahl
- jaremykerr
- karolgugala
participation: Public
git: https://git.openpower.foundation/librebmc/

@ -4,15 +4,18 @@ member: oregonstateuniversity
projects:
- Open Source
provides:
- Bare Metal Machine (coming soon)
- Virtual Machine (via OpenStack; with GPU)
- Container (via OpenShift; with FPGA; coming soon)
- Bare Metal Machine
- Virtual Machine
addons:
- none
- Nvidia V100 GPU (VM)
- OpenCAPI Alpha Data 9H3 FPGA (container)
- Nvidia V100 GPU
- Nvidia T4 GPU
- OpenCAPI Alpha Data 9H3 FPGA
systems:
- POWER9
sponsors:
- mellanox
- oracle
opnstkflavors:
standard:
- name: "oph.c1m4.d20"
@ -78,29 +81,19 @@ opnstkflavors:
disk: 240
operatingsystems:
available:
standard:
- CentOS Stream 8
- CentOS Stream 9
- Debian 10
- Debian 11
- Fedora [latest]
- Ubuntu 18.04
- Ubuntu 20.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
gpuenabled:
- CentOS Stream 8
- CentOS Stream 9
- Ubuntu 20.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Alma Linux 8
- Alma Linux 9
- Alpine
- CentOS Stream 8 (GPU)
- CentOS Stream 9 (GPU)
- Debian 10
- Debian 11
- Debian 12
- Fedora [latest]
- Ubuntu 18.04
- Ubuntu 20.04 (GPU)
- Ubuntu 22.04 (GPU)
unavailable:
standard:
- Alma Linux 8
- Alma Linux 9
- Rocky Linux 9
gpuenabled:
- Alma Linux 8
- Alma Linux 9
- Rocky Linux 9
weight: -9000
date: 2022-08-24
draft: false

@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ level: silver
image: antmicro.png
country: "Poland"
joined: 2020
cancelled: 2022-12-31
date: 2021-03-15
draft: false
---

@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ link: https://www.google.com
level: platinum
country: United States of America
joined: 2013
cancelled: 2023-12-31
date: 2021-03-02
draft: false
---

@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Inspur Power Systems
image: inspur-power-systems.png
level: silver
country: China
link: https://www.inspursystems.com
link: http://www.k1powersystems.com/
joined: 2017
date: 2021-03-03
draft: false

@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
---
title: Power Maroc
image: powerm.png
country: Morocco
link: https://powerm.ma/
level: silver
joined: 2024
date: 2024-01-01
draft: false
---

@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
---
title: University of California - CHIPS Lab
image: ucla.png
country: USA
link: https://www.chips.ucla.edu/
level: academic
joined: 2021
date: 2021-08-31
draft: false
---

@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
---
title: X-ScaleSolutions
image: xscalesolutions.jpg
country: Cambodia
link: http://x-scalesolutions.com/
country: USA
link: https://x-scalesolutions.com/
level: silver
joined: 2019
date: 2021-03-31

@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
---
title: "Brad Frey"
#image:
member: ibm
date: 2021-08-05
draft: false
---

@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ He is a serial entrepreneur with a background in enterprise technology and has w
business development, product management, and engineering.
Previously, James was co-founder and COO at Hyper.sh, an open source cloud-native virtualization startup acquired by Ant Financial.
Prior to that, he led product management in Red Hat's OpenStack group, and was a product lead on AT&T's first OpenStack Cloud.
James graduated from University of Virginia with a degree in Electrical Engineering and is based in New York.
James graduated from University of Virginia with a degree in Electrical Engineering and is based in Washington D.C. area.

@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
---
title: "Jeremy Kerr"
#image:
member: codeconstruct
date: 2021-08-05
draft: false
---

@ -77,6 +77,20 @@
{{ end }}
</div>
</div>
{{ if .Param "sponsors"}}
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-4">
<h5>Sponsors :</h5>
{{ range $s := .Param "sponsors" }}
{{ $imagename := (printf "%s.png" $s) }}
{{ $imagelocation := (printf "%s/%s" "images/sponsors/hub/" $imagename) }}
{{ $imageresource := resources.Get $imagelocation }}
{{ $image := $imageresource.Fit "150x150" }}
<img src="{{ $image.RelPermalink }}" alt="{{ $s }}">
{{ end }}
</div>
</div>
{{ end }}
</div>
{{ if .Content }}
<div class="row">

@ -90,16 +90,11 @@ var goal = "{{ .Site.Params.forms.hub.goal }}";
<div class="form-group col-lg-6">
What Operating System would you like on your POWER resource?
<select id="operatingsystem" name="operatingsystem">
{{ if .Param "operatingsystems.available.standard" }}
{{ range .Param "operatingsystems.available.standard" }}
{{ if .Param "operatingsystems.available" }}
{{ range .Param "operatingsystems.available" }}
<option value="{{ . }}">{{ . }}</option>
{{ end }}
{{ end }}
{{ if .Param "operatingsystems.available.gpuenabled" }}
{{ range .Param "operatingsystems.available.gpuenabled" }}
<option value="{{ . }}">{{ . }} (GPU-enabled)</option>
{{ end }}
{{ end }}
</select>
</div>
{{ end }}

@ -12,4 +12,9 @@
{{ $imageprocessing := (printf "%sx%s %s" $width $height "webp") }}
{{ $image := $imageresource.Fit $imageprocessing }}
<img src="{{ $image.RelPermalink }}">
{{ with .Get "caption" }}
<br>
<i>{{ . }}</i>
<br>
{{ end }}


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