IBM Open Power Architecture Servergy will push power server

"Tenkine Server channel April 8 News" Recently, Servergy Company will launch the first Power architecture server. Typically, the power server is IBM-only, but as the server market changes, IBM is also introducing a third party power vendor.

Servergy's power product is a blade server, model Cleantech server CTS-1000, which will be released after IBM granted the Power architecture to Third-party Partners in August this year. Servergy also announced that he would join the OpenPOWER Foundation. In addition, Taian, one of OpenPOWER's members, announced that it would start manufacturing power servers in August.

After IBM sold all the x86 server product lines to Lenovo, it has focused exclusively on its power architecture. IBM was set up last year to launch the OpenPOWER program. At the heart of this program is the open IBM Power microprocessor hardware and software architecture, where companies within the OpenPOWER Alliance can obtain power licensing and enable the customization and openness of power processors.

At the beginning of 2014, two Chinese enterprises formally joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, Suzhou Sheng Acer Information Technology Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Industrial Technology International Research Institute. Suzhou Sheng Acer Information Technology Co., Ltd. to develop and promote the server's processor products in China market by obtaining the license of IBM Power Architecture, POWER8 related intellectual property and chip design tools. Jiangsu Industrial Technology International Research Institute will help build and promote the power chip development ecosystem in Jiangsu Province and nationwide.

Samsung Electronics also recently announced to join the OpenPOWER Foundation, Samsung has been involved in x86 and arm, including a variety of chip architecture, joined the OpenPOWER Alliance, it seems that Samsung's chip business appetite is not limited to x86 and arm, but also want to share a piece of power structure.

In recent years, IBM has accelerated the construction of the power biosphere. Google may customize Low-power power server clusters in the data center; Mellanox with InfiniBand, Ethernet switches, they may use power to implement software Definition Network SDN; Nvidia is working with IBM to promote High-performance computing projects, such as the calculation and various analysis projects that require high performance. In May 2013, IBM founded the first power technology based Linux Development Center--power BAE Linux Center in Beijing. With the help of the center, more than 550 new applications based on the power architecture have been developed so far.

Recently, Intel officially launched the Xeon E7 v2 processor. Intel's E7 V2 processor has performance and RAS features comparable to the IBM power processor, targeting IBM's power minicomputer. Intel has begun hacking into the key business markets of IBM minicomputer, and IBM has not watched Intel move.

As early as 2012, IBM launched the Project Camp Trina application Server. By pre-installed the partner's software on the PowerLinux server, packaged as a camp box solution, helping users significantly reduce the cost of using the power platform and the POWERVM virtualization technology threshold to further enrich the Power Enterprise entry-level server product line. Unlike the traditional power server using the AIX operating system, the goal of the x86 application server is to run standard workloads on Linux.

IBM is working with software developers to migrate more than 1000 applications from the x86 platform to the Trina Application server platform. IBM will issue the Power application certification (certified by Power) certificate to this ISV partner, confirming that the applications developed by ISV partners can run smoothly on the IBM Trina Application Server platform. In addition, IBM works with application integrators to provide customers with application deployment consulting based on the POWERVM resource pool, and set up special funds to support application integrators to provide better application integration services for industry customers.

Power processors have become increasingly "niche" in the face of strong challenges from x86 in recent years. Into the 2014, IBM's movement in the power biosphere was constant. IBM authorizes the development of the partner ecosystem through the open Power architecture, and on the other hand begins to layout power applications. Develop power application scenarios with ISVs, SI, and value-added partners. IBM has announced that it will implement KVM operation on the power processor in 2014.

IBM is expanding the power ecosystem by enriching power hardware products and power software applications, and x86 architecture occupies the majority of the market share in the data Center server market. The challenge for IBM power is self-evident that arm has also expanded its data center market this year through the introduction of 64-bit architecture products. But with IBM's industry appeal, we have reason to believe that the power architecture will certainly win a place in the data center market. And in this year, x86, ARM, power three structure of the duel is also this year's data center market a big point.