October 14, 2016 | Written by: Steve Fields | Original Post Imagine the business challenges that would be solved with 10 times faster data center server performance. For those of you who design and develop technology for the data center, this has been a goal you’ve strived for and struggled to achieve due to the diminishing rate […]
Friday, October 14, 2016 | Posted by John Zipfel, Technical Program Manager and Rob Lippert, Technical Lead, Zaius Program | Original Post Here at Google Cloud, our goal is to enable our users and customers to be successful with options, high performance and value. We’re committed to open innovation, and look forward to working with industry […]
“The Gen-Z Consortium is committed to establishing an ecosystem where members, the broader industry, and customers work together to deliver robust, high-quality specifications that enable new datacenter architectures,” said Kurtis Bowman, Gen-Z Consortium president. “The formation of these three new consortia (CCIX, OpenCAPI, and Gen-Z), backed by more than 30 industry-leading global companies, supports the […]
“The CCIX group of companies believe in the need to foster innovation in the industry”, said Gaurav Singh, CCIX Chair. “We welcome the efforts of and look forward to collaborating with the Gen-Z and OpenCAPI consortiums which will further the development of key technologies that will define the datacenters of tomorrow.”
“Xilinx is fully committed to bring high performance accelerators to market,” said Gaurav Singh, vice president of Architecture at Xilinx. “Today our All Programmable devices support CAPI on POWER8 platforms and are excited to join the OpenCAPI consortium to develop highly differentiated solutions with the POWER9 platforms.”
“While memory has always been an essential building block for computing, it is quickly becoming the critical technology to unlocking next-generation performance.” said Tom Eby, vice president and GM of Micron’s compute and networking business. “Because open standards present the best opportunity for rapid innovation, the OpenCAPI, Gen-Z, and CCIX consortiums are an important step […]
“Mellanox is delighted to be one of the founding members of the OpenCAPI consortium and help drive the creation of open standards to enhance the datacenter performance, and in particular the interconnect – CPU / memory / accelerator communications,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of Marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “Open standards and the open collaborations […]
“IBM first introduced CAPI technology to the industry in 2014 with our POWER8 processor and made it available to our OpenPOWER partners. Since then, the industry has embraced and validated its potential as a game-changing technology for the most important modern workloads including artificial intelligence, advanced data analytics and deep learning,” said Brad McCredie, IBM […]
“Open standards are necessary to meet the demands of the modern data center,” said Mark Potter, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Enterprise Group, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “HPE is committed to supporting open standards and working collaboratively with our partners in the OpenCAPI, and Gen-Z consortiums.”
“In order to resolve problems customers face today and in the future we need an industry that collaborates on an open standards principle,” said John Roese, EVP/CTO, Dell EMC. “Efforts like OpenCAPI and Gen-Z are essential to enabling our customers to innovate and thrive in an ever changing industry.”
