Document provided by Cynthia Dai (IBM Taiwan)

1. Introduction of 2018 OpenCAPI Contest
Cynthia Dai
2019. March

2. Agenda
1. 2018 OpenCAPI Contest Summary
– Participants
– Onsite Presentation & Defense, award ceremony
– Result and solution project names
– Sponsors and staffing
– Organizers and judgers
– Schedule and milestones
2. How CAPI/OpenCAPI Promote Real Business
3. How CAPI/OpenCAPI Promote Real Business

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12. How CAPI/OpenCAPI Promote Real Business
Issues and Findings
• IBM and IPS both only have capability to build demo solution, cannot build real and completed product
solution.
• Although we can prove in some small scenario CAPI ‘s advantage, internet customer lean to choose to
solutions with minimum change cost /effort (lessons learned from Tencent).
• Most internet customers doesn’t have good FPGA team, prefer to introduce IDH(Independent Design House)
solution. So IDHs for CAPI/OpenCAPI are playing critical role.
• After published the participants sharing of their development experience in the contest.
• https://openpowerfoundation.org/powerful-heterogeneous-computing-development-tool-brought-by-new-
technology/
• More IDHs initiatively reached out to IBM for CAPI. Such as CT-Accel and NG-codec.
• IDH recognized CAPI’s advantage on easy of use and flexibility as well as high band and low latency theoretically.
Those are very important for them. Some solution porting to OpenPOWER ongoing
Progress after 2018 Contest
Conclusion
The most effective way to promote business would be IBM, IPS, Universities working on demo solution and IDHs
working on real solution development and employment

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Solutions Demos
IBM Demo
Solution Team
Customers
IBM & IPS
Industry ,
Community &
Government
Technologies
enablement,
Technical support
business
requirement,
insights
Participate,
Influence,
Endorse
Technical
Trends
OpenPOWER
TeamsCAPI /OpenCAPI
Performance
Heterogeneous
POCs with real
business impact
ü Solve customer pain point
ü Outperform competitors
ü Maximize IBM’s
technology advantages Business
requirement
Technology
Skills
Experiences
Solutions/Demos
Industry Insights
ISV1
Industry
insight
Skills
Solutions Demos
IPS Demo
Solution Team
Real Solution
Deployment
Tier 1 (Has FPGA dev team)
Tier 2 (no FPGA dev
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Self Dev
Buy
from
ISV
Buy
from
ISV
ISV2
ü Solve customer pain point
ü Outperform competitors
ü Maximize IBM’s
technology advantages
Skills
Research
Demos
Influence
Univ1
Univ2
Industry
insight
Cooperation &
Influence
Cooperation
Ecosystem building
Technology promotion,
developer courses
Ecosystem
Influence,
Endorse
How CAPI/OpenCAPI Promote Real Business

14. 1. Industry impact
Attracted more IDH (Indecent Design House) to
contact IBM for CAPI/OpenCAPI discussion,
like CT-Accel, NG-Codec
Introduced CAPI/OpenCAPI to students and
researchers in this area.
1. Several universities insist CAPI research and
buy some Raptor severs.
2. Most teachers and students recognized CAPI
advantage. They introduce this technology
to startup companies.
3. Several professors are leaders of national
research projects. Have influence in
government purchase .
Some universities have close relationship with
startup companies.
Fudan Univ.’s result will be technical reservation
for their startup companies.
Shenzhen Univ has national level big data research
lab. Their solution also target a user case many
internet companies interests.
2. Academic impact
Business Value
Business Value Business Value
3. Promote Demo Solution
Development
Several universities setup future
CAPI/OpenCAPI demo solution plan.
1. Fudan Univ. – 8k H.265 video encoder with 2
FPGAs.
2. Shenzhe Uni. – Advertisement Click through
rate participating based on CAPI.
3. Zhejiang Univ. – Optimization on Pulse
Neural Network Accelerator
Those result can also be exhibited in
OpenPOWER summits and conference.
Influence After of 2018 OpenCAPI Contest
1. IDH already have accelerator solutions in 4
areas
• AI inference pre-process --- Security,
monitor, and picture inference
• Image transcoding – Social media
• Storage compression - -Cloud storage
• Video encoder – Live video network.
2. Several China IDH already have business
with big internet companies.

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