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Open source implementation of the Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) Firmware Stack
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.
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[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 .
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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 .
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[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.
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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).
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[13] OpenBMC includes a
web application for interacting with the firmware stack.
[14] OpenBMC added
Redfish support for hardware management.
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Systems
Google/Rackspace partnership
Barreleye G2 / Zaius —two-socket server platform using
POWER9 processors.
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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.
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[19] AC922 was used in the
U.S. Department of Energy's
Sierra and
Summit supercomputers.
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Power System's S1024, L1024, S1022, L1022, S1022, S1014, and E1050 – 1–4 socket
Power10 systems
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Raptor Computing Systems / Raptor Engineering
Talos II —two-socket workstation and development platform; available as 4U server, tower, or EATX mainboard.
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Talos II Lite – single-socket version of the Talos II mainboard, made using the same PCB.
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Blackbird – single-socket
microATX platform using SMT4 Sforza POWER9 processors, 4–8 cores, 2 RAM slots (supporting up to 256 GiB total)
[26]
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