IBM POWER8 Extreme Performance Challenge Officially Launched

IBM today announced the official launch of the 2014 POWER8 Extreme Performance Challenge, which provides developers with the POWER8 development environment in a cloud computing manner. Developers will take full advantage of the features of POWER8 to develop applications based on different scenarios. The competition not only set up multiple individual awards, the winning team can also get the free use right of the IBM System Center cloud environment (Center Express) for 6 months. The cloud environment is based on POWER8.

IBM POWER8 Extreme Performance Challenge Officially Launched

This challenge will encourage developers to make full use of the features such as POWER8 multi-threading and transaction memory for big data and analysis and design. This will help developers understand and make full use of the advantages of POWER8 to maximize the promotion of big data, analysis, and mobility. Social application performance and concurrent access capabilities.

IBM POWER8 Extreme Performance Challenge Officially Launched

In the context of big data, both enterprise-level applications and personal-facing Internet applications are facing great challenges brought about by big data. They require hardware platforms to fully consider the requirements of big data and analysis, such as Hadoop, which is typically high. Concurrency applications are very much in need of computing platform multithreading capabilities.

IBM POWER8 Extreme Performance Challenge Officially Launched

The senior vice president of Greater China of IBM and the general manager of server solutions of the Ministry of Systems and Technology, Hou Xin, said at the event that there are two keywords for POWER in 2014: POWER8 and OpenPOWER. The IBM POWER8 system is the first comprehensive system platform designed for big data, enabling customers to manage increasingly complex and data-intensive workloads, enabling the infrastructure to better meet the challenges of cloud computing and mobile computing, and quickly turning data into insight. In addition, the openness of POWER8 continues to expand the POWER ecosystem.

Li Hong, Product Director of Power Systems, Greater China, IBM Systems and Technology Division, introduced the cloud computing and big data features of POWER8 in detail at the event site. Dynamic parallel multi-threading, PowerLinux KVM core technology and chip-level controllers enhance power management. POWER8 optimizes memory bandwidth, PCIe, SMT, virtual addressing, and hardware-managed cache consistency for big data.

CSDN Vice President Gong Wenjian introduced the specific content of this event. The challenge competition lasts for one year. The monthly ranking system is adopted. Developers can register on the homepage of PowerLinux Technology Community of CSDN. The specific process is:

Register for entry - Log into the PowerLinux community, enter the POWER8 lab, fill in personal information, and complete the registration.

Applying for Resources - After the audit is approved, developers log on to POWER8 Labs to apply for testing resources and experience cloud-based one-stop services.

Complete the challenge - get source data, perform data analysis and other operations, get the correct results and provide screenshots and source code to CSDN.

Win the big prize - the cumulative score of the contestants, which is presented on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis. Participants can receive generous rewards for gifts.

Each month, the Challenge platform will publish an open topic, such as blog anti-spam, sensitive data filtering, etc., and the developer will obtain correct analysis data through programming (no limitation of the programming language used). The correct analysis result is to complete the challenge. Take the example of this blog as an example of anti-spam. In practical application development, using IBM's latest POWER8 concurrent multi-threading technology can achieve several times the efficiency of the response.

IBM POWER8 Extreme Performance Challenge Officially Launched

IBM invested $1 billion in Power Systems servers to research and develop the latest Linux and other open source technologies, and established five Power Systems Linux centers around the world. The Beijing-based Linux Center successfully migrated more than 500 applications to the Linux platform within one year.

IBM POWER8 Extreme Performance Challenge Officially Launched

In addition, IBM uses OpenPOWER Foundation to make POWER8 available for open development. The OpenPOWER Foundation is an open development community dedicated to accelerating data center innovation and system design changes based on the POWER8 architecture. The OpenPOWER Foundation provides POWER software and hardware for open development and POWER intellectual property licensing. The openness of POWER8 will create a better infrastructure platform for big data analysis, mobile, and social networking.

The computing environment for this competition is based on the cloud computing service Center Express provided by the IBM System Center. Developers, ISVs, and partners can apply for free Center Express services to take advantage of the latest POWER8 systems for application development, testing, and migration. Center Express enables developers to remotely access POWER8 computing resources anytime, anywhere. Center Express expands the services provided by IBM's Power Systems Linux Center in Beijing last May.

Editor's comment: In 2014, we saw that IBM has been accelerating the pace of the POWER ecosystem. Since IBM has sold the x86 product line to Lenovo Group, IBM has put all its energy on POWER. This year POWER8 was officially released and IBM has demonstrated an unprecedented openness. The launch of the POWER8 Extreme Performance Challenge can also be seen as an important measure for IBM's development of POWER. IBM is subverting the original image of POWER architecture in people's minds, developing more for developers, and expanding the POWER architecture in the developer community. The influence.