On 9/12/17 4:30 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > 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. >
I've been using timberdoodle, but not bogsucker. I haven't been following this thread, but if its a question of maintaining those machines, I can help out with that. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : [email protected] GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA
