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OpenBMC
Open source implementation of the Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) Firmware Stack From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The OpenBMC project is a Linux Foundation collaborative open-source project that produces an open source implementation of the baseboard management controllers (BMC) firmware stack.[1][2][3] OpenBMC is a Linux distribution for BMCs meant to work across heterogeneous systems that include enterprise, high-performance computing (HPC), telecommunications, and cloud-scale data centers.[3][4]
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History
In 2014, four Facebook programmers at a Facebook hackathon event created a prototype open-source BMC firmware stack named OpenBMC.[5] In 2015, IBM collaborated with Rackspace 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 are Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Google, and Facebook.[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]
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Features
OpenBMC uses the Yocto Project as the underlying building and distribution generation framework.[10] The firmware itself is based on U-Boot.[11] OpenBMC uses D-Bus as an inter-process communication (IPC).[12][13] OpenBMC includes a web application for interacting with the firmware stack.[14] OpenBMC added Redfish support for hardware management.[15]
Systems
- Google/Rackspace partnership
- Barreleye G2 / Zaius—two-socket server platform using POWER9 processors.[16][17]
- IBM
- Power Systems AC922 also "Witherspoon" or "Newell"—two-socket, 2U Accelerated Computing (AC) node using POWER9 processors with up to 6 Nvidia Volta GPUs.[18][19] AC922 was used in the U.S. Department of Energy's Sierra and Summit supercomputers.[20][21]
- Power System's S1024, L1024, S1022, L1022, S1022, S1014, and E1050 – 1–4 socket Power10 systems[22]
- Raptor Computing Systems / Raptor Engineering
- Talos II—two-socket workstation 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-socket microATX platform using SMT4 Sforza POWER9 processors, 4–8 cores, 2 RAM slots (supporting up to 256 GiB total)[26]
References
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