# Title:  An introduction to Libre-SOC and Cray-style Vectors for OpenPOWER

The current HPC / Supercomputer market has few top contenders:China ICT Loongson 3, Intel / AMD x86 and IBM POWER9/10.None of these have the features of one of the most iconicSupercomputer ISA: Cray-style Vectors, known historicallyfor compact program size and massive number-crunchingcapability.
Libre-SOC is working under the close watchful eye of the OpenPOWERFoundation to develop Draft Extensions to the Power ISA, extendingthe already-proven Supercomputing-grade Power ISA with Cray-styleVectors.  This talk will give a brief overview of the progress androadmap.

# Bio

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton specialises in Libre Ethical Technology.He has been using, programming and reverse-engineering computingdevices continuously for 44 years, has a BEng (Hons), ACGI, inTheory of Computing from Imperial College, and recently put thateducation to good use in the form of the Libre-SOCProject: an entirely Libre-Licensed 3D Hybrid CPU-VPU-GPU based onOpenPOWER. He writes poetry and has been developing a HEP Physics theoryfor the past 36 years in his spare time.