| 1 |
On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:29:10 -0500 |
| 2 |
R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
> 1) May I have access to a/the POWER server, or some other suitable |
| 5 |
> POWER resource? If not, |
| 6 |
> 2) is anyone available to verify that I am associated with the project |
| 7 |
> or that I will use the resources for project related work? |
| 8 |
> |
| 9 |
> My intent is to experiment with the PowerPC architecture, specifically |
| 10 |
> features found on newer POWER processors and servers. It is unlikely I |
| 11 |
> will ever get to do this on my own as the machines run $10k-$30k. I |
| 12 |
> requested services from OSU because GCC was not able to accommodate my |
| 13 |
> request for hypervisor access on their system. |
| 14 |
> |
| 15 |
> However, having finally found the resources I've been looking for this |
| 16 |
> whole time, it looks like OSU's nodes are virtualized and won't be |
| 17 |
> able to do exactly what I want anyway (i.e. the GCC sysadmin was |
| 18 |
> misinformed), so I may have accidentally wasted people's time and |
| 19 |
> potentially tarnished Gentoo's reputation. I will make amends as best |
| 20 |
> I can. |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
As of a few months ago, we have two POWER8 guests, one big endian |
| 23 |
(timberdoodle) and one little endian (bogsucker). We would just have |
| 24 |
one but you can't mix big and little endian on the same system. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
After the old POWER7 timberdoodle died, I was responsible for creating |
| 27 |
these new instances with some help from prometheanfire. Replacing |
| 28 |
CentOS systems that had tied up all the storage from the other side of |
| 29 |
the world with no direct raw access was an interesting challenge! |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
I didn't intend to manage the systems long term though as I only use |
| 32 |
them for building and testing Java stuff. I consider prometheanfire, |
| 33 |
blueness, and vapier to be in charge though you may struggle getting |
| 34 |
hold of the latter two. |
| 35 |
|
| 36 |
We generally only give access to devs but I am aware of one exception |
| 37 |
we made for gnu_andrew, who works for Red Hat and provides our icedtea |
| 38 |
ebuilds. Unfortunately I've only seen you on this list but hopefully |
| 39 |
someone can vouch for you. I don't know whether these guests will be |
| 40 |
suitable for your needs though. |
| 41 |
|
| 42 |
-- |
| 43 |
James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
| 44 |
Gentoo Linux Developer |
Archives