OpenPOWER9 Raptor Talos-II
John Newman
jnn at synfin.org
Wed Oct 11 18:26:49 PDT 2017
> On Oct 10, 2017, at 11:39 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://www.ibm.com/power/operating-systems/linux
> https://www.ibm.com/Search/?q=power9
> https://twitter.com/ibmpowerlinux
>
>
>
> As to common competition CPUs near or above, other than
> Intel/AMD x86 and killed off IA-64, and neither retail or open,
> are current SPARC based. Other things to play with are on
> the list...
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux-supported_computer_architectures
>
> Fujitsu SPARC XII
> http://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/servers/unix/sparc/lineup/m12-1/
> http://www.fujitsu.com/jp/documents/products/computing/servers/unix/sparc/events/2017/coolchips20/CoolChips20-rev8.pdf
> https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/05/fujitsu-takes-ibm-power9-sparc64-xii/
>
Is there still a current open source Solaris targeted to SPARC?
I seem to recall that Oracle closed the latest stuff back up... (which seems absurd)
I wonder how Linux or the BSDs run on SPARC... I have a few netra t1s collecting dust, haven’t been
used in years....
> Oracle M8
> https://www.oracle.com/servers/sparc/t8-1/index.html
> http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/sparc-m8-processor-ds-3864282.pdf
> https://community.oracle.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/1017902-102-1-163307/T8M8_Architecture_WP_20170914.pdf
> https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/09/18/m8-last-hurrah-oracle-sparc/
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