SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Abstract
A new class of cloud and datacenter infrastructure is emerging into the marketplace. This new infrastructure element, often referred to as Data Processing Unit (DPU), Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) or xPU as a general term, takes the form of a server hosted PCIe add-in card or on-board chip(s), containing one or more ASIC’s or FPGA's, usually anchored around a single powerful SoC device.
The OPI project has been created to foster the emergence of an open and creative software ecosystem for DPU/IPU based cloud infrastructure. At this live webcast, experts actively leading this initiative will provide an introduction to the OPI project, discuss OPI workstream definitions and status, and explain how you can get involved.