On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:29:10 -0500 R0b0t1 <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) May I have access to a/the POWER server, or some other suitable > POWER resource? If not, > 2) is anyone available to verify that I am associated with the project > or that I will use the resources for project related work? > > My intent is to experiment with the PowerPC architecture, specifically > features found on newer POWER processors and servers. It is unlikely I > will ever get to do this on my own as the machines run $10k-$30k. I > requested services from OSU because GCC was not able to accommodate my > request for hypervisor access on their system. > > However, having finally found the resources I've been looking for this > whole time, it looks like OSU's nodes are virtualized and won't be > able to do exactly what I want anyway (i.e. the GCC sysadmin was > misinformed), so I may have accidentally wasted people's time and > potentially tarnished Gentoo's reputation. I will make amends as best > I can.
As of a few months ago, we have two POWER8 guests, one big endian (timberdoodle) and one little endian (bogsucker). We would just have one but you can't mix big and little endian on the same system. After the old POWER7 timberdoodle died, I was responsible for creating these new instances with some help from prometheanfire. Replacing CentOS systems that had tied up all the storage from the other side of the world with no direct raw access was an interesting challenge! I didn't intend to manage the systems long term though as I only use them for building and testing Java stuff. I consider prometheanfire, blueness, and vapier to be in charge though you may struggle getting hold of the latter two. We generally only give access to devs but I am aware of one exception we made for gnu_andrew, who works for Red Hat and provides our icedtea ebuilds. Unfortunately I've only seen you on this list but hopefully someone can vouch for you. I don't know whether these guests will be suitable for your needs though. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
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