Power.Org will sponsor the first Power Architecture Developer Conference in the Austin Convention Center September 24-25.
The vendor-neutral convention will gather Power.org's corporate members with developers, hardware and software solution providers, academics and designers to show how open collaboration can break down barriers to innovation. The two-day event will include technical sessions, hands-on labs, keynote addresses and vendor demonstrations.
Power.Org fosters the growth of Power Architecture technology, an instruction set architecture that spans
applications from consumer electronics to supercomputers. Sponsors include IBM (NYSE: IBM) 
, Freescale
Semiconductor and Applied Micro Circuits.
The Power of Power
"This is the first time the Power Architecture is being promoted in this manner. Through Power.org [the sponsors] are pushing hard for Power to be recognized for the incredible inroads and foundation it maintains in a wide variety of industries -- military, telco, automobile, spaceborne and interplanetary and consumer," Kai Staats, CEO of Terra Soft Solutions, told LinuxInsider.
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) has always been a strong marketing engine, but Power is on the rise. This event is a showcase as
well as an educational outlet for chip vendors, board OEMs, ISVs and developers alike, Staats explained.
Event Highlights
The conference will offer presentations on Power Architecture, multiple-chip technology, software and tool vendors. Attendees will also learn about emerging Power Architecture technologies and roadmaps. They can meet a wide range of solution providers in the Power Architecture community.
The conference will push for greater collaboration with Power Architecture technology. Conference planners expect more than 500 attendees to join in networking and collaborating sessions.
The two-day event will provide some 65 hours of technical sessions and lab sessions. Also, 20 vendors will demonstrate at least 50 real-world applications.
Technical Sessions
Staats will present one of several dozen technical conferences. He will discuss clustering PS3s.
Terra Soft Solutions has constructed a growing Cell cluster from PlayStation 3 appliances. This
lightweight, low-cost cluster solution offers a balance of limitations and performance using Yellow Dog
Linux 
and Y-HPC.
Focus on clustering and Y-HPC technology can have a positive impact on engineering applications for the Cell processor, said Staats.
"They are an excellent means by which developers may build, test and optimize parallel and distributed Cell applications, with the very real potential to migrate to the more robust IBM and Mercury systems," said Staats.
Technical sessions are grouped into six categories: Embedded Perspective, Digital Media, Compute
Intensive Solutions, Multi-core Solutions, Software Development and Virtualization,
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