OpenBMC

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OpenBMC
Developer(s) OpenBMC community
Initial release3 November 2015;8 years ago (2015-11-03)
Stable release
2.14.0 / 16 May 2023;5 months ago (2023-05-16)
Repository github.com/openbmc/openbmc
Written in C, C++
Available inMainly English
License Apache License 2.0
Website www.openbmc.org

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]

Contents

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]

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]

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