IBM OpenPOWER9 CPU [re: Closed Intel / AMD Firmware]

Steven Schear schear.steve at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 09:45:51 PDT 2017


Agreed that the POWER series are at (or perhaps above) most people's price
point. Its a shame non-SOC ARM PCs aren't common to avoid the easily hidden
backdoors afforded by integrated processors.

Warrant Canary creator

On Oct 8, 2017 7:22 PM, "grarpamp" <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Steven Schear <schear.steve at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Why not switch to much more open CPUs (e.g. POWER8/9) which are already
> > comparable to much of Intel's higher end server chips.
>
> Power8 is an intermediate generation now on phaseout, where
> Power9 seems more part of a fuller openpower initiative that might
> stand up to Intel / AMD. The entire early 9 production output was
> being vacuumed up by military / big data / compute, and retail is
> taking a while to evolve. It's good stuff however power is still an
> expensive platform for non enterprise end users to just buy
> casually, and to pay electric on, but the openness might win.
> Power9 scaleout SO is rather less than scaleup SU versions.
>
> If you want me to switch and get in the game early, perhaps
> with review coinmining and shell ftw, you know what to do... ;)
> BTC:1CQYSaF8Cqx5ZSgaKG9LE8UrEJAkWqFpLa
>
> https://wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation
> https://wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12351319
> https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/06/inside-future-google
> -rackspace-power9-system/
> https://blog.rackspace.com/the-latest-zaius-barreleye-g2-ope
> n-compute-openpower-server
> https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/09/19/power9-rollout-begin
> s-summit-sierra/
> https://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/07/15/open-sourced-bios-
> helps-power8-compete-x86/
> http://www.theplatform.net/2015/03/23/inside-the-rackspace-
> openpower-megaserver/
> https://www.servethehome.com/?s=openpower
> https://www.anandtech.com/SearchResults?q=openpower
> http://www.storagereview.com/search/node/openpower
> https://hn.algolia.com/?query=power9&sort=byDate&prefix&page
> =0&dateRange=all&type=story
>
> https://raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
> https://raptorcs.com/content/base/faq.html
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14956257
> http://tyan.com/campaign/OpenPOWER/
>
> https://github.com/open-power
> https://github.com/openbmc
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/POWER8
> https://www.freebsdnews.com/2015/03/04/freebsd-power8-its-alive-2/
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=279189
> https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.h
> tml#FreeBSD-on-POWER8
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/search/query/oIdoWWKTe71p/
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.8-More-POWER9
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Power-Ch
> anges-Linux-4.12
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raptor-Talos-2-Teaser
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Talos-2-
> POWER9-Pre-Order
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Talos-2-
> FSF-RYF-Possible
>
> http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom
> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/only-a-short-time-left-
> to-pre-order-the-talos-ii-pre-orders-end-september-15th
>
> Minimum to boot and scale cost users roughly $3300 incl 2x cpu, ps, 32gb.
>
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