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OpenBMC
Developer(s)OpenBMC community
Initial release3 November 2015; 8 years ago (2015-11-03)
Stable release
2.1 / 25 January 2018; 6 years ago (2018-01-25)
Repositorygithub.com/openbmc/openbmc
Written inC++, Python
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitehttps://www.openbmc.org/

The OpenBMC project is a Linux Foundation Collaborative open-source project whose goal is to produce an open source implementation of the Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) Firmware Stack.[1][2][3] OpenBMC is a Linux distribution for BMCs meant to work across heterogeneous systems that include enterprise, High-performance computing (HPC), Telecommunications, and cloud-scale data centers.[3][4]

History

OpenBMC traces its origin to 2014, when four Facebook engineers at a Facebook hackathon event created the prototype version.[5] Founding organizations of the OpenBMC project are Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Google, and Facebook.[6][3]

Features

OpenBMC uses the Yocto Project as the underlying building and distribution generation framework.[7] OpenBMC uses D-Bus as an inter-process communication (IPC).[8][9]

Systems

Google/Rackspace partnership

Barreleye G2 / Zaius — two-socket server platform using POWER9 processors.[10][11]

IBM

Power Systems AC922 also "Witherspoon" or "Newell" — two-socket, 2U Accelerated Computing (AC) node using POWER9 processors with up to 6 Nvidia Volta GPUs.[12][13] AC922 was used in the U.S. Department of Energy's Sierra and Summit supercomputers.[14][15]

Raptor Computing Systems / Raptor Engineering

Talos II — two-socket workstation and development platform; available as 4U server, tower, or EATX mainboard.[16][17]

References

  1. ^ "Projects - The Linux Foundation". The Linux Foundation. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  2. ^ "Power of Open(Source)BMC - OpenPOWER". OpenPOWER. 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  3. ^ a b c "OpenBMC Project Community Comes Together at The Linux Foundation to Define Open Source Implementation of BMC Firmware Stack - The Linux Foundation". The Linux Foundation. 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  4. ^ "The Firmware Stack Opens Up". EnterpriseTech. 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  5. ^ "Introducing "OpenBMC": an open software framework for next-generation system management". Facebook Code. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  6. ^ "Home - OpenBMC". OpenBMC. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  7. ^ Wang, Xo (2017-05-22). "Developing on OpenBMC Under the hood with BitBake" (PDF). openpowerfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-01-09. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  8. ^ "OpenBMC, A Reference Firmware Stack - OpenPOWER". OpenPOWER. 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  9. ^ Open Compute Project (2017-03-14), The OpenBMC Project, retrieved 2018-01-09
  10. ^ "Introducing Zaius, Google and Rackspace's open server running IBM POWER9". Google Cloud Platform Blog. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  11. ^ PyCon Australia (2016-08-15), OpenBMC: Boot your server with Python, retrieved 2018-01-09
  12. ^ "IBM Power System AC922 - Details - United States". www.ibm.com. 2018-01-05. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  13. ^ Bader, David (2017-11-15). "The @IBM Power9 "Newell" compute node is the world's most accelerated node with next-gen NVLink to @NVIDIA #GPUs". @Prof_DavidBader. Retrieved 2018-01-05. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  14. ^ "Details Emerge On "Summit" Power Tesla AI Supercomputer". The Next Platform. 2016-11-20. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  15. ^ "The Roadmap Ahead For Exascale HPC In The US". The Next Platform. 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  16. ^ GmbH, finanzen.net. "A High Performance, Open, and Secure Alternative to X86 Computing". markets.businessinsider.com. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
  17. ^ 2018, (c) Raptor Engineering, LLC 2009 -. "Raptor Computing Systems::TL2WK2 Intro". www.raptorcs.com. Retrieved 2018-01-05. {{cite web}}: |last= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)