Texas Multicore Technologies Joins the OpenPOWER Foundation
AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 9 -- Texas Multicore Technologies (TMT) today announced the company has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community based on the POWER microprocessor architecture.
TMT joins a growing roster of technology organizations working collaboratively to build advanced server, networking, storage and acceleration technology as well as industry leading open source software aimed at delivering more choice, control and flexibility to developers of next-generation, hyperscale and cloud data centers. The group makes POWER hardware and software available to open development for the first time, as well as making POWER intellectual property licensable to others, greatly expanding the ecosystem of innovators on the platform.
TMT provides software programming tools and services that solve the parallel programming problem for multicore and many-core computing platforms to unleash the full potential of POWER-based platforms. SequenceL is a compact, powerful functional programming language and auto-parallelizing tool set that quickly and easily converts algorithms to robust, massively parallel code, delivering portability with optimization. TMT has worked closely with IBM to do the hard, low-level work of building POWER platform optimizations in its tools so the broad base of software developers don’t have to.
“We have been very impressed by the performance our SequenceL tools have been able to extract from the POWER platform and look forward to working with the OpenPOWER ecosystem to enable faster and better applications sooner,” says Doug Norton, Chief Marketing Officer of TMT. “Our goal is to enable all software developers – not just a gifted few “parallel ninjas” with a lot of time and deep expertise – to quickly and easily unleash the full performance potential of these platforms. Accordingly, we plan to participate in work groups pertaining to software development, including engineering/scientific, accelerators, and machine learning.”
“The development model of the OpenPOWER Foundation is one that elicits collaboration and represents a new way in exploiting and innovating around processor technology,” says Calista Redmond, President, OpenPOWER Foundation. “With the POWER architecture designed for high performance and high system throughput, we are pleased to have TMT join the OpenPOWER Foundation to help more software developers create powerful new applications that capitalize on emerging workloads.”
To learn more about OpenPOWER and to view the complete list of current members, go to www.openpowerfoundation.org.
About Texas Multicore Technologies (TMT)
TMT provides software programming tools and services to modernize software to run on multicore and many-core computing platforms with optimal performance. Founded in 2009, the company delivers easy to use, auto-parallelizing, race-free programming solutions based on the powerful SequenceL functional programming language to enable faster and better applications sooner. For more information, visit texasmulticore.com.
Source: TMT
