Re: [gentoo-dev] PowerPC Resources at OSU

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 9/12/17 4:30 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:29:10 -0500
> R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> 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.

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