CAPI-enabled accelerator cards suitable for POWER CPU processors

All of this is aimed at delivering more choice, control, and flexibility to developers of next-gen, hyperscale and cloud data centres. The OpenPOWER Foundation 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.

"BittWare is excited to join the OpenPOWER Foundation," said Ron Huizen, VP of Systems & Solutions, BittWare. "Having our FPGA accelerators and network processors CAPI-enabled with POWER CPU processors is particularly compelling, and we look forward to making it available to our customers."

"The development model of the OpenPOWER Foundation is one that elicits collaboration and represents a new way of exploiting and innovating around processor technology," said Calista J. Redmond, Director, OpenPOWER Global Alliances, IBM. "With the POWER architecture designed for Big Data and Cloud, new OpenPOWER Foundation members like BittWare will be able to add their own innovations on top of the technology to create new applications that capitalise on emerging workloads."

"The demand for FPGA acceleration in data centers is increasing and with that the need for innovative, high performance accelerator solutions," said Andy Walsh, Director of Data Centre marketing, Xilinx. "The Xilinx-based offerings from BittWare are a great addition to the OpenPOWER ecosystem and extend our efforts to deliver industry-leading solutions for IBM POWER systems."