The Linux Foundation Member Summit

Linux functions as the foundational infrastructure within mission-critical systems across sectors such as energy, transportation, healthcare, and industrial automation. These systems are essential to our society and must operate reliably for decades while adapting to the evolving landscapes of Smart Cities and IoT. Interconnectivity, while enriching our lives, presents significant challenges in managing vulnerabilities and system upgrades, necessitating adherence to international standards and the maintenance of system compatibility and integrity. The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) project addresses these challenges by providing Industrial Grade Linux that enables robust, secure, and sustainable operations. Over the past seven years, CIP has demonstrated a commitment to meeting current operational needs and addressing future threats and challenges. This presentation will explore the value of CIP, focusing on its pivotal role in strengthening cyber resilience while enhancing system reliability. Attendees will gain insights into how utilizing CIP can help build sustainable systems, ensuring they are well-equipped to meet future challenges.

As the JDF nears its 10 year anniversary, we have built a strong track record advancing specification efforts alongside open source projects. This session will provide examples and case studies for how LF Open Source projects and JDF Specifications projects are collaborating on internationally relevant Standards. We will also highlight findings from our State of Open Standards Report, and share some of the programs and resources the JDF have been developing to support open source projects interested in Standards.

Picture the WHOLE software supply chain, beginning to end; it's a little like that olde tyme classic, "Candyland". Designed NOT with preschoolers in mind, AI Supply Chain Candy Land is for everyone interested in learning about the software supply chain for AI/ML. Travel through exotic locations like The Peppermint Forest of swirly-twirly dependencies, The Fudgy Swamp of Compliance, and much more! AI/ML is a fast-moving space within technology. However, everything we've learned in software engineering of the last few decades ALSO applies to this "new" world of AI/ML. We'll apply traditional software supply chain security techniques and, wherever able, tools to help developers and consumers win AI Supply Chain Candyland. Through an enjoyable and colorful game, with useful examples taken from standards and frameworks, the audience will have a better appreciation and ability to apply supply chain security concepts and tools to the development and support of AI/ML-based solutions.

The landscape of computing has changed and the majority of software developers are looking to use architectures with multiple types of processors, in particular GPUs. The emergence of modern AI techniques has further accelerated the usage of GPUs and new AI processor architectures to achieve the performance required by neural networks. The challenge developers are seeing is that different architectures often require unique languages, tools and libraries, adding complexity and limiting code reuse. The solution is to provide a single way to develop across these architectures, and the basis for this must be rooted in an open, standards-based programming model and libraries. The UXL Foundation was formed to tackle this, and we are working together to build a solution to these challenges – providing an open, standards-based way to develop software and deploy across vendors. This presentation will show how the UXL Foundation is evolving its projects to meet the vendor neutral demands of software developers by adopting open standards and open source, and how our members are using the projects to enable projects like PyTorch and TensorFlow.