Open source implementation of the Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) Firmware Stack
TheOpenBMC project is aLinux Foundation collaborativeopen-source project that produces an open source implementation of thebaseboard management controllers (BMC)firmware stack.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] OpenBMC is aLinux distribution for BMCs meant to work across heterogeneous systems that include enterprise,high-performance computing (HPC),telecommunications , and cloud-scaledata centers .[ 3] [ 4]
In 2014, fourFacebook programmers at a Facebookhackathon event created a prototype open-source BMC firmware stack named OpenBMC.[ 5] In 2015,IBM collaborated withRackspace on an open-source BMC firmware stack also named OpenBMC. These projects were similar in name and concept only.[ 6] In March 2018, OpenBMC became a Linux Foundation project and converged on the IBM stack. Founding organizations of the OpenBMC project areMicrosoft ,Intel ,IBM ,Google , andFacebook .[ 7] [ 3] A technical steering committee was formed to guide the project with representation from the five founding companies. Brad Bishop from IBM was elected chair of the technical steering committee.[ 8] In April 2019,Arm Holdings joined as the 6th member of the OpenBMC technical steering committee.[ 9]
OpenBMC uses theYocto Project as the underlying building and distribution generation framework.[ 10] The firmware itself is based on U-Boot.[ 11] OpenBMC usesD-Bus as aninter-process communication (IPC).[ 12] [ 13] OpenBMC includes aweb application for interacting with the firmware stack.[ 14] OpenBMC addedRedfish support for hardware management.[ 15]
Google/Rackspace partnership Barreleye G2 / Zaius —two-socket server platform usingPOWER9 processors.[ 16] [ 17] IBM Power Systems AC922 also "Witherspoon" or "Newell"—two-socket, 2U Accelerated Computing (AC) node usingPOWER9 processors with up to 6 NvidiaVolta GPUs.[ 18] [ 19] AC922 was used in theU.S. Department of Energy's Sierra andSummit supercomputers.[ 20] [ 21] Power System's S1024, L1024, S1022, L1022, S1022, S1014, and E1050 – 1–4 socketPower10 systems[ 22] Raptor Computing Systems / Raptor Engineering Talos II —two-socketworkstation and development platform; available as 4U server, tower, or EATX mainboard.[ 23] [ 24] Talos II Lite – single-socket version of the Talos II mainboard, made using the same PCB.[ 25] Blackbird – single-socketmicroATX platform using SMT4 Sforza POWER9 processors, 4–8 cores, 2 RAM slots (supporting up to 256 GiB total)[ 26] ^ "Projects - The Linux Foundation" .The Linux Foundation . Retrieved2018-03-19 .^ "Power of Open(Source)BMC - OpenPOWER" .OpenPOWER . 2016-02-02. Archived fromthe original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved2018-01-05 .^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. Retrieved2018-03-19 .^ "The Firmware Stack Opens Up" .EnterpriseTech . 2018-03-20. Archived fromthe original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved2018-03-21 .^ "Introducing "OpenBMC": an open software framework for next-generation system management" .Facebook Code . 10 March 2015. Retrieved2018-01-05 .^ "Differences between facebook/openbmc and openbmc/openbmc · Issue #589 · openbmc/openbmc" .GitHub . Retrieved2019-03-28 .^ "Home - OpenBMC" .OpenBMC . Retrieved2018-03-19 .^ "README: add Technical Steering Committee members · openbmc/docs@e28e782" .GitHub . Retrieved2019-08-31 .^ "Docs: Add Arm representative to the list of TSC members · openbmc/docs@560b4ca" .GitHub . Retrieved2019-08-22 .^ Wang, Xo (2017-05-22)."Developing on OpenBMC Under the hood with BitBake" (PDF) .openpowerfoundation.org . Archived fromthe original (PDF) on 2018-03-27. Retrieved2018-01-09 . ^ Lei, Yu (2020-06-15)."BMC Management" .developer.ibm.com . Retrieved2023-10-25 . ^ "OpenBMC, A Reference Firmware Stack - OpenPOWER" .OpenPOWER . 2016-02-02. Archived fromthe original on 2018-03-27. Retrieved2018-01-09 .^ The OpenBMC Project , 2017-03-14, retrieved2018-01-09 ^ GitHub - openbmc/phosphor-webui: Reference WebUI for managing OpenBMC systems. , openbmc, 2019-02-19, retrieved2019-02-21 ^ A do everything Redfish, KVM, GUI, and DBus webserver for OpenBMC: openbmc/bmcweb , openbmc, 2019-08-29, retrieved2019-08-29 ^ "Introducing Zaius, Google and Rackspace's open server running IBM POWER9" .Google Cloud Platform Blog . Retrieved2018-01-05 .^ OpenBMC: Boot your server with Python , 2016-08-15, retrieved2018-01-09 ^ "IBM Power System AC922 - Details - United States" .www.ibm.com . 2018-01-05. Retrieved2018-01-05 .^ 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 . Retrieved2018-01-05 . ^ "Details Emerge On "Summit" Power Tesla AI Supercomputer" .The Next Platform . 2016-11-20. Retrieved2018-03-27 .^ "The Roadmap Ahead For Exascale HPC In The US" .The Next Platform . 2018-03-06. Retrieved2018-03-27 .^ "Managing OpenBMC-based and BMC-based systems by using the HMC" .www.ibm.com . Retrieved2023-11-05 .^ "A High Performance, Open, and Secure Alternative to X86 Computing" .markets.businessinsider.com . Retrieved2018-01-05 .^ "Raptor Computing Systems::TL2WK2 Intro" .www.raptorcs.com . Retrieved2018-01-05 .^ "Raptor Computing Systems::TL1MB1 Intro" .www.raptorcs.com . Retrieved2019-08-22 .^ "Raptor Computing Systems::BK1MB1 Intro" .raptorcs.com . Retrieved2019-08-22 .
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