POWER Is Not Just for Databases https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/power-is-not-just-for-databases/ #HPC #Power11 #IBMPower #ppc64le

#IBM #Power11 Launches in IBM Power Virtual Server: Unlocking the Next Generation of Hybrid Cloud for Power Workloads https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/anthony-ciccone/2025/07/07/ibm-power11-launches-in-ibm-power-virtual-server-u #IBMCloud #PowerVS #ppc64le

The unofficial and untested code-server (aka #Code #OSS in the browser) releases are now also available for #Linux Power (#ppc64le) and Linux s390x (#s390x): https://gitlab.b-data.ch/coder/code-server/-/releases

#codeserver

Why #AI on #IBMPower? https://www.ibm.com/downloads/documents/us-en/107a02e959c8f4af #IBM #POWER10 #ppc64le

💻 Hello Old Friend, Talos II 💻

This was my first IBM POWER9 system, acquired in 2020 and built for home/desk use. Dual socket SMT4 Sforza, 144 threads, 256-512GB RAM, various storage/net/accelerators over the years. [1]

As expected, I fell in love and acquired four IBM Power System L922-2U [2], which are presently in the colo awaiting network rebuild (remote hands this time).

The Talos II has served a variety of purposes, with most of its time running FreeBSD PPC64le (&a bit of PPC64be for fun). Sometimes also Linux, back when I was tearing into qemu code for compiler optimization hypothesis testing, RTX GPU passthrough, +validating assumptions about qemu on P9/le handling amd64 & arm64 emulation.

So, out of storage! Into the rack! New user accounts! But first it needs updated OS drives (the 3x 64GB SATADOM in Raid-Z1 need to be repurposed), and a NIC (25G-DP CX-5 or X710-DA4).

- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#Raptor_Computing_Systems_/_Raptor_Engineering
- [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#IBM

@dexter electricity comes next 🧠

#FreeBSD #Linux #POWER9 #PPC64le #IBM #RaptorTalos #FMT2 #colo #datacenter #onprem #homelab #hardware #engineering #goodtimes #sunday #meditation #whiteNoiseGeneratorsLulMeToSleep #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM

🎉Hot off the presses - update to the #IBM #Redpaper: IBM Power E1080 Technical Overview and Introduction https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp5649.html #IBMPowerSystems #ppc64le #E1080

@stman @GrapheneOS @mikesixgolf @tasket yeah, the good ol' days of the "AIM Alliance" are long gone and #mc68k basically has been abandoned...

It's really depressing to see "good tech" get scrapped and sidelined (like #ppc64 / #ppc64le & #SPARCv9 as well as #mc68k) and abandoned.

To me #ARM64 is at best a "mixed bag" but I'd rather say it's a "fundamentally fucked up architecture" and I can't wait for good & auditable #RISCv to hit mainstream, even tho that'll take 10-25 years at minimum...

New machines to test with #gentoo #ppc64le #ultrasparc #t1

#IBMPower Webinar tomorrow (04.11.2024): Getting started with Multi-Arch Compute workloads with your Red Hat OpenShift cluster Register here https://ibm.biz/BdvQHC #ppc64le #amd64

#darktable runs on my #power9 machine natively now! woohoo!

#guix gets better on #ppc64le :ablobcool:

Checking on shipments before starting the workday to see if the newly acquired (fourth) LC922 is transiting to the colo… and yes, it's true #iLoveIBM!

Still pending OS storage decisions before supply chain:

- remain standardized on dual S4510 / PM863a
- alt standard w/ dual SATADOM for EFI boot handoff to dual NVMe
- introduced new standard of dual 2TB P3608 Optanes
- disregard OS drives and use iSCSI boot
- other ideas… 🙇🏼‍♀️

💞 #POWER9 #PPC #PPC64 #PPC64le 💞

#FreeBSD #Linux #HomeLab

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

Building on a year of focus to help IBM Power clients grow with hybrid cloud and AI https://www.ibm.com/blog/building-on-a-year-of-focus-to-help-ibm-power-clients-grow-with-hybrid-cloud-and-ai/ #POWER10 #IBMPower #IBMPowerSystems #ppc64le #ai #hybridcloud

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

Nice, my #guix install on #ppc64le compiled the #telegram desktop client successfully today. One less docker image to take care of, yay!

#power9

It looks like #ppc64le support for Ring is right around the corner! https://github.com/briansmith/ring/pull/1057#issuecomment-1736512131 #RustLang #cryptography

OpenShift on Power 完全オフライン環境でのインストール
https://qiita.com/mmitsugiw/items/571eb921e50a8a0b5327?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items
#qiita #redhat #openshift #ppc64le

I've just published a blog post about the long double transition on ppc64le.
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/05/16/benefits-fedora-38-long-double-transition-ppc64le
#ppc64le #fedora

Most valuable thing in #ppc64le #guix for me now would be having a working #rust package

Many packages (indirectly) got dependent on rust over time and those can't be upgraded anymore, and the list is getting larger by the day.

The actual error is in building #mrustc and is low level enough that it is way out of my league.