@dexter well this is nice to see again, home sweet home in the Talos II bootloader - with a FreeBSD ISO installer ...

Left: OpenBMC interface w/ iKVM
Right: standard term via SSH to BMC and "obmc-console-client"

14.2 is installing now, no surprises. tomorrow, more fun!

#freebsd #talos #openbmc #power #openpower #ibm

Gnu/Linux PowerPC notebook
Update on open source hardware Powerpc notebook
https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2024/11/major-improvements-for-powerboard-tyche-despite-adversity-but-there-is-still-work-to-be-done/

#openpower #oshw #notebook #gnu_linux

@koakuma @techokami also #UltraSparcT2 as cool as it was at release (including dual 10Gbit-NICs and hardware RNG on die) has a lot of things noone would want to deal with in 2024 (i.e. DDR2-FBDIMMs).

• Plus #RISCv unlike #SPARCv9 amd #OpenPOWER was designed on a clean slate in academia by people who had dealt with #RISC & #CISC architectures and needed something #OpenSource as they can't just violate NDAs nilly-willy for teaching.

Pretty shure @stman could write an entire curriculum on why #SPARC, #PowerPC, #s390x and even #ARM / #ARM64 should not be pursued and why #mc68k died alongside the unfixable-by-design mess that is #ix86 & #amd64.

• Plus RISCv's ISA has been an #OpenStandard from the get go, whereas the efforts by #Oracle nee #Sun and #IBM were mostly done in reaction to it and to keep the few invested licensees and co-designers onboard and not drop the platform entirely...

Look, I'd love to get my hands on some Sun SPARC Hardware but aside from making my room hot and noisy there isn't much to justify blowing likely over half a Euro per hour (electricity price: € 0,40/kWh) just to have it up and running, as compared to a #PiCluster like those @geerlingguy had built multiple times are more practical.

• For comparison: It's like driving a 2011 Ford CVPI-71 with a 11,9l SONNY'S SAR-729 engine for commuting from Leverkusen to Köln when there's ample of affordable, reliable and fast public transport that gets me faster from Opladen to Deutz than it takes to drive up the 15th deck of a parking garage just to find a spot to park that 5,7m long street yacht where one can climb out of it from the doors and not the trunk!

And that's just bottom-billing, low-cost ARM SoC tech designed for a price tag (to the point that until the #Pi5 they neither included a power button nor #RTC onboard!

• OFC RISC-V is still 5-25+ years behind #ARMv9 solely based off #patents, #budget and #PersonnelHours invested in it, so it's barely getting on-par with 10-20yr old ARM devices in terms.of power and support.

A few more #Power and Power-related t-shirts from my collection :-) One is from #Genesi, another one from #NVIDIA, and one from the #OpenPOWER Foundation. All document the history of #IBM POWER!

https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/some-more-power-t-shirts/

#IBMChampions #nostalgia

I love t-shirts, especially those that you’d call #logowear. But it’s not the kind of big name #fashion logos that I’m referring to. Rather, it’s logowear from my favorite IT companies:

https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/power-t-shirts/

In this case: #IBM #POWER #OpenPOWER

Yesterday I happened to wear a power dot org t-shirt, while today I’m wearing an #OpenPOWER t-shirt, two #IBM #POWER t-shirts in two days :-) Both of these brought back some nice memories.
https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/power-t-shirts/

Re-intro post I guess. Moved from @aspensmonster@octodon.social to @aspensmonster. Also used to be @aspensmonster@mastodon.technology way back when.

"To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.”

Geography: #atx #tx #austin #texas #AustinTX #FortWorth #dfw

Tech: #GrapheneOS #firefox #debian #sysadmin #RockyLinux #AlmaLinux #osm #OpenStreetMap #RISCV #OpenPower #PowerPC #PPC

Politics: #socialism #communism #marxism #MarxismLeninism #cyberpunk

Games: #haloinfinite #celeste #StardewValley #Nintendo64 #n64 #DeusEx #zelda #OcarinaOfTime #botw #nintendo #playstation #DetroitBecomeHuman #dbh

Movies: #TheMatrix #BladeRunner

Just gave my talk at #CPOSC ! 🐧🎉

Slides (PDF): https://princessleia.com/presentations/2024/Will_your_open_source_project_run_on_a_mainframe_Or_on_a_smartwatch_-_CPOSC_2024.pdf #IBMZ #ARM #RISCV #OpenPower #IBMPower

Continuing our #EverythingOpen Schedule Highlights, we present Nicholas Piggin, Software E at #IBM, who will be talking about the ideal #OpenSource runtime #BIOS, covering #OpenPOWER and #OPAL

Schedule 🔜
Registrations now open:
https://2024.everythingopen.au/news/registrations-open/

Utilizing #IBM Spectrum #LSF Simulator to Understand the Impacts of Adding #AI Workloads to Capability Supercomputing https://www.osti.gov/biblio/2205452 #HPC #POWER9 #OpenPOWER

Utilizing #IBM Spectrum #LSF Simulator to Understand the Impacts of Adding #AI Workloads to Capability Supercomputing https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2205452 #POWER9 #openpower

In today's #EverythingOpen retro post, one for the #OpenHardware folx - it's @jk taking us through the journey of developing the fully open #LibreBMC baseboard management controller, used to power the #IBM #AC922 #WitherSpoon.

If you love #OpenPOWER, #FPGA, #HPC or #CPU implementation, this one's for you.

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLoKQ1nAkis

Heavily discounted #EarlyBird #EB tickets still available, for a short time only:
https://2024.everythingopen.au/news/registrations-open/

How are you all going with your #CfP submissions for #EverythingOpen? Have you started yet? 😎

#OpenSource #FOSS #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenGLAM #OpenAI #OpenLLM #OpenData #OpenGov #OpenGIS #OpenStreetMap #OpenSystems #OpenJournal #OpenID #OpenLibrary #OpenPower #OpenHealth #Privacy #InfoSec #OpenMessaging #OpenHardware

Some photos from the #IBM booth at #SC23 courtesy of my colleague Bill McMillan. Gotta love that beefy #IBMPowerSystems E1050 and the newly announced Scale System 6000 💙💪#OpenPOWER #POWER10 #ppc64le #HPC #iamhpc

Raptor Computing Developing New Secure BMC & New #OpenPOWER ISA 3.1 Based Systems https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raptor-Computing-New-2024 #ppc64le

The next Raptor #OpenPOWER systems are coming, but they won't be #POWER10 https://www.talospace.com/2023/10/the-next-raptor-openpower-systems-are.html #ppc64le #ppc64

Raptor CS na příští rok plánuje nový hardware bez procesorů od IBM
#POWER #OpenPOWER #RaptorCS #IBM
https://alt-f4.cz/raptor-cs-na-pristi-rok-planuje-novy-hardware-bez-procesoru-od-ibm

Seems that #RaptorComputing, others will announce #Power10 systems soon? I hope so! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj4Q-m_WEh0&t=220s #OpenPower #PowerPC #PPC #OpenSourceHardware

The Russian computer company Yadro has left OpenPower Foundation, the organization for IBM's POWER CPU architecture where it was a "platinum" member, to focus on RISC-V instead: https://3dnews.ru/1088875/yadro-ushlo-ot-ibm-i-prishlo-k-risc-v

Earlier Yadro acquired a hardware startup Syntacore that designed RISC-V processors.

#Yadro #Syntacore #IBM #POWER #OpenPOWER #PowerPC #RISCV #RISC #OpenSource #Semiconductors #Tech #Russia #ComputerArchitecture #News #TechNews #Servers