On 2018-10-30 02:46, Simon Matter wrote:
On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM
POWER
and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the
hardware
market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS
alive)!
Er, RHEL has been running on Power for a very long time. The fastest
supercomputer in the world is Power9 + RHEL.
What I meant is that POWER could become a competitor for Intel/AMD
based
servers. We're now running AMD EPYC servers with 64Cores/128Threads and
we
didn't find any POWER system which could compete in this area.
Also, looking at TOP500 list there are not so many POWER systems
anymore.
IBM could change this now.
IBM's Power8 and Power9 servers run 8 threads per core, so a 24 core
Power 8 server runs 192 threads, as long as the operating system can
handle it, you should be fine.
And if you're looking for major operations running on Power, look no
farther than Google...they're a huge part of the Power consortium and
run a huge farm of Power systems on Tyan boards.
--
Mike Burger
http://www.bubbanfriends.org
"It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever
just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1
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