Abebeos | Provide Barrier-Free Power PC OSS-Development |
Akari | Testing framework for porting and optimizing x86 SIMD library to OpenPOWER systems |
Alberta Speculation | Investigate multi-threaded speculation of alternative paths of execution in a sequential execution |
BearSSL | An SSL/TLS library, with a focus on a clean, secure implementation of protocol, up-to-date with the latest research; POWER8 systems writes specific implementations of AES/GCM and other cryptographic algorithms that leverage the specific opcodes offered by the CPU, for better performance |
Blosc | PowerPC testing for Blosc, a high performance compressor optmized for binary data |
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) |
Elephant Shed | Provides ppc64le build and performance testing for Elephant Shed, a bundle of PostgreSQL tools and web UI for easy administration of PostgreSQL servers |
EQueue | an efficient lock-free queue for pipeline parallelism on multi-core architectures |
GCC/Clang | Contributes to improved support of GCC and Clang projects on POWER machines by working on IBM Linux Technology Center items on bountysource.com |
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 |
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 |
Ginga Middleware | ISDB middleware for interactive DTV. Supports project in porting to POWER8 |
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 |
Jellyfish | A fast multi-threaded k-mer counter. POWER infrastructure is being used to compile builds, performance testing, architecture troubleshooting |
juju-charms | Adds ppc64el support to appliance image for building/interfacing with juju, the juju charm store, and assembling charms |
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 |
LAPACK | The Numerical Linear Algebra package project tests builds on IBM architecture and with IBM compiler and also uses it to fix bugs with IBM xlf |
libpod | a library for applications looking to use the Container Pod concept, popularized by Kubernetes |
Linux Kernel | Allows maintainer of Linux kernel features to test on ppc64le |
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 |
Nettle | A cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context |
Nokogiri | Provide support on RHEL 7.1 LE & Ubuntu 14.04 on ppc64le arch |
ONNX | Open Neural Network Exchange, ONNX provides an open source format for AI models, both deep learning and traditional ML |
OpenFaaS | Making Serverless Functions Simple |
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 |
OpenWhisk | Supports building ppc64le Docker images for OpenWhisk, a programming service that provides event based execution of functions |
oVirt | Added support for POWER hosts for a virtual machine manager |
pgSphere | Provides ppc64le builds for pgSphere, a PostgreSQL extension for spherical geometry |
qiskit-sdk-py | Python tools for running quantum information experiments |
SHA-3 | Ensures support and viability of Secure Hash Algorithm 3 on POWER, including POWER8 specific optimizations |
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 |
Tobin's Linux kernel | Supports a volunteer developer's efforts to test the Linux kernel on POWER |
VSXSIMD | SIMD Optimization Bountys |
X265 HEVC Encoder | Explores POWER8-specific optimizations for x265 including, but not restricted to, assembly optimizations and thread-related optimizations |
Zarafa | Supports project specific porting efforts of POWER8 ppc64/ppc64le |