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" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Steven Schear <[email protected]> > 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. >
