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There are so many like SAP who ported SAP HANA http://www-03.ibm.co...

We (@quru) have been porting solutions to Power8. We've also been helping @MariaDB by repeating their seriously exciting bencharks for DB use on Power: 1,000,000 read/writes in a second.

Another is the Graph Database #Neo4J http://neo4j.com/new... announced in the past couple of weeks

And MongoDB Enterprise...

Its been very popular with many Open Source vendors such as #Chef #MariaDB.

A key thing is understanding thread management - some software isn't very thread happy so you have to think carefully about how you optimise and how you use all those cores.

In addition many commercial software vendors have also adopted Linux on POWER such as #Informatica

The 8 threads percore make the POWER8 processor like a super highway able to process more and bring awesome visualization at the thread level

@GuyClapperton if you want to read more about the threads check out my blog http://asmarterplane...

There are loads of testimonials from ISVs who have found the benefit of running their apps on #Power8 http://bit.ly/1QgRvu...

Welcome, Russell. The others will answer in a second.

Hello Russell! There are a range. Let me get you some links...

So, here is one from Financial Services: http://www.hpcwire.c... That is showing how much faster #POWER8 is, with OpenPower, for the STAC benchmark.

A completely different workload is Genomics, which you can see more about here: http://openpowerfoun...

Further, there is the work the STFC are doing with Big Data http://www.enterpris...

So, lots! Anything where speed to answers can return business benefits! Does that answer your question?

Anything in regards to the retail industry?

As well as the Big Data solutions @D_spurway mentioned, it's also very good at running more consumer focused apps, like Magento's ecommerce based on the LAMP stack

Useful stuff - thanks Simon.

Sure, so, the IBM Institute of Business Value has a couple of papers about Retail, one of which is here: http://www-935.ibm.c...

Those don't directly discuss the technologies delivered by OpenPOWER, but they do call for enhanced Analytics, to target customers more accurately. If you can know your customers better, and target them at the right time, business benefit.

You can see some TurboLAMP and Magento results in this post from a colleague in the US: http://ibm.co/1O5s1w...

The technologies in OpenPOWER, and the collaboration with the best of the business that occurs, will create new ways to target customers.

@simonarmiger Thanks for the solid example, Simon - @russell I hope you're seeing that?

We're seeing a lot of interest from the new database guys in town, the NoSQLs, like MongoDB, Neo4J, Cassandra - all these run exceptionally well on Power8, and can make great use of a unique CPU to peripheral interface called CAPI

@simonarmiger sure am.. Great info guys

Excellent! Very glad to have supplied useful info so far, but feel free to keep asking us more, after this event as you like!

this is exactly what the recently charted Personalised Medicine workgroup will be focused on: http://openpowerfoun...

"Big data" is helping medical research - so surely if big data analysis is better on Power then Power is going to help medical research.

Also related to this area is the work happening in Genome Folding with POWER8, lots going on! http://openpowerfoun...

Thanks for the link Mandie.

Absolutly and as we move the the Cognative era of computing - Linux on POWER clouds and data centers are 'powering' those workloads http://www-03.ibm.co...

Could you clarify what you mean by "where it all goes" please, Lukasz?

What areas are the most interesting and exiting for the members of #OpenPOWER? What are the prediction for the future of the innovations?

we've got members from a wide range of industries with a wide range of industry specific technical problems to solve. There are a number of workgroups focusing on different areas... http://openpowerfoun... (contd)

... Workgroups focus on parts of the stack such as accelerators, memory but we've also had industry specific groups chartered recently such as Personalised Medicine. And more coming soon...

Welcome aboard Moya! Tell us about the London group, how many people attend?

The group is 6 weeks old and growing. We have our next meet up on the 9the December!

here is the link to the group http://meetu.ps/2PlM...

Thanks - is it open to anyone?

Thanks Robin.

I would answer this through a comparison of the openness that defines the OpenPOWER Foundation, and the closed approach taken by our competitors. Customers want openness, and are seeing the benefits of that.

There's been a lot of talk about "open" before but it seems more real than previously...

Our focus with #POWER8, which is the core techology of OpenPOWER is the performance at the thread and core level, delivering speed to business answers, and lowering costs.

- there are many changes it brings - one is that bringing choice to the Linux Cloud and Data centers, it adds competition and it pushes the boundaries so we can deliver workloads more efficently

Thick journalist alert here - what's an SBC?

"Single Board Computer" rather like a grown up Raspberry Pi

Thanks. I'll leave the others to answer/

you might be interested in this which I saw at the IBM Zurich Research lab this week, actually PowerPC based -> https://t.co/cWVMlQJ...

That's the one I saw. I'd really like to get my hands on something like that... I guess I have to go work for the SKA ;)

we've had a lot of interest from the demo at SC15 by @ronaldgadget. It is still in the research environment but very promising for very dense high performance analytics workloads.

p.s. I would like to get hold of some too :)

I note that @rackspace and @google have been building their own Power based servers - http://www.nextplatf... - will we see more of this or is it going to be "the big boys" only?

I certainly think we'll see more of this. And more OpenPOWER partners manufacturing servers which will be sold by partners and potentially added to IBM's LC Systems line. http://www-03.ibm.co...