Everything about Power Org totally explained
Power.org is an organization whose purpose is to develop, enable and promote
Power Architecture technology. The objective is to establish open standards, guidelines, best practices and certifications regarding Power Architecture, as well as drive adoption of the platform.
Power.org was founded in 2004 by
IBM, 15 other companies joined as members the day the site
http://power.org
was created.
Freescale joined in 2006 as a founding member and was given similar status as IBM. Power.org have over 40 paying members, corporations, governmental and educational institutions, and over 10.000 developers.
Milestones
- Power.org is founded (Dec 2004) – The Power.org site is opened.
- Freescale joins (Feb 2006) – Freescale joins Power.org.
- The brand – (July 2006) Establishing "Power Architecture" as a brand, unifying products based on POWER, PowerPC, PowerQUICC and Cell under one common flag.
- Power ISA v2.03 (Nov 2006) – The unified instruction set for Power Architecture processors, joining 15 years of development on POWER and PowerPC architectures.
- Power Architecture Platform Reference or PAPR (Nov 2006) – The foundation for development of standard Power Architecture computers running the Linux operating system.
- Unified roadmap (Nov 2006) – A common roadmap for Power Architecture processors from different vendors.(External Link)
- Power Architecture Developer Conference (Sept 2007)(External Link)
Organization
Power.org consists of a Board of Directors which consists of founding members and others. Several committees and subcommittees govern and manages the organization's goals, projects and responsibilities. Members have no veto rights in the decisions processes of what defines the
Power Architecture, this is IBM's and Freescale's responsibility.
Membership
Power.org has a tiered membership model, with four levels: Founder, Sponsor, Participant and Developer. Developer membership is free for anyone.
Members
Not a complete list:
IBM (founder)
Freescale (founder)
Cadence (founder)
Synopsys (founder)
AMCC
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Broadcom
Bull
Chartered
CoWare
Curtiss-Wright
Denali
Ericsson
Genesi
Green Hills Software
HCL Technologies
Kyocera
LynuxWorks
Mentor Graphics
Mercury Computer Systems
National Instruments
OKI
P.A. Semi
Rapport
Sony
Terra Soft
Thales
Tundra Semiconductor
Universitat Mannheim
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Virtutech
Wind River
Xilinx
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