Below are a list of projects formerly hosted on the OpenPOWER infrastructure at the OSL.
Alberta Speculation | Investigate multi-threaded speculation of alternative paths of execution in a sequential execution |
CentOS | Provided support and testing for alpha testing of CentOS Linux distribution on POWER architecture |
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging of human brain | Drive diffusion basis spectrum imaging (DBSI) for clinical applications and large scale trials for a diffusion MRI modality which can increase the magnetic resonance imaging specificity for neurodegeneration diseases |
dlib | A modern C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms and tools for creating complex software in C++ to solve real world problems. The projects ran tests and benchmarked PowerPC8 VSX optimizations. |
Drupal Testbots | Powered the testing and review of code contribution for Drupal 8 (qa.drupal.org) |
GCC | Contributed to improving support of various open source projects in the GCC family on POWER machines; began by tackling IBM Linux Technology Center items on bountysource.com |
gdb | Worked on adding fast tracepoint support for ppc/ppc64/ppc64le |
The Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) | A software package for analysis of high-throughput sequencing data with a primary focus on variant discovery and genotyping as well as strong emphasis on data quality assurance, hosted on POWER architecture to run faster |
GLIBC | GNU C Library: GNU project's implementation of the C standard library; supported the development and testing on the POWER platform |
GMP | Entailed the compilation of gmp-6.1.0 (from gmplib.org) and measurement of its performance with gmpbench-0.2 on the POWER platform |
ICU | The International Components for Unicode project runs their build machines on a OSL hosted POWER VM |
JXcore on PPC | Supports the platforms that the mainstream node.js does not; IBM has a PPC version of V8; Besides V8, JXcore also implements SpiderMonkey engine; project involved providing stable PPC releases on each version of Node.JS / JXcore |
MulticoreWare x265 | Use GCC PowerPC altivec instructions to optimize the x265 open source HEVC implemenation |
MySQL | Involved testing on POWER8, provide fixes to platform specific bugs and make more stable on POWER8 |
Nokogiri | Provide support on RHEL 7.1 LE & Ubuntu 14.04 on ppc64le arch |
Openlibm | Provided hosting to support the development on the POWER platform of a high quality, portable, standalone C mathematical library (libm), used by the Julia project |
OpenShift Origin | Used POWER infrastructure to demo OpenShift Origin clusters at KubeCon 2017 |
oVirt | Added support for POWER hosts for a virtual machine manager |
Squash | A plugin-based abstraction library for general purpose data compression algorithms which provides a common API for a large number of compression libraries, allowing people to easily test multiple codecs to see which works best, or pass along the choice to their users; it involved development and testing on the POWER platform and adding support for the big-endian architecture |
University of Alberta and Universidade de Campinas | The goal is to investigate the use of the speculation support in POWER8 for the speeding up the sequential execution of programs. Single-threaded speculation has been used in the past, through trace-based compilation. The goal of this project is to investigate multi-threaded speculation of alternative paths of execution in a sequential execution. This is a joint project between University of Alberta -(UofA) and Universidade de Campinas (Unicamp). |
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