On October 17, 2018, at 8:50 AM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:35:52 +1100, you wrote: >>On Saturday, 13 October 2018 12:38:15 AM AEDT Gerald Henriksen wrote: >> >>> If ARM, or Power, want to move from their current positions in the >>> market they really need to provide affordable developer machines, >> >>Not sure if this comes in at a price point that makes sense for this, but >>there is now an ATX Power9 mainboard available. >> >>https://raptorcs.com/TALOSIILITE/ >> >>They claim: >> >>https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1020371675316215809 >> >># TalosIILite in stock and ready to ship! #POWER9 mainboard + CPU + RAM + HSF >># for under $2,000 USD, what's not to like? Supports all of our Sforza CPU >># options, from 4 core to the high end 22 core CPUs. >Not really. >While there obviously is a lot of corporate funded work in the open >source community I would guess little of it is interested in anything >but the traditional AMD/Intel systems, and maybe ARM. >To give a new / minor platform traction you really need to have >something priced where it can be a personal purchase, normally as a >secondary machine as few people will move to ARM or Power (at this >point) as an only machine. >They do however have another platform coming, no prices yet, but >should hopefully be more affordable in the Blackbird: >https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Blackbird >And to point out what is obvious to many, the reason these cheaper >systems are needed is to get all that open source software working and Two nights ago I turned two lines of core python into seven working lines. It is extremely frustrating. Lately I just expect it. >tested, Raptor has had to do work just to get Chrome working on Power: >https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raptor-Chrome-JIT-PPC64LE-Work >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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