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Gwaihir posted:I wouldn't charge for it since it's surplus, other than just whatever it took to pack and ship. But, like, that would be a lot, lol Oh man, if you were in Atlanta I'd be there in a heartbeat. I have a couple IBM PowerPC and Cell blades in my old IBM E series bladecenter.
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I still have an old DEC Alphaserver workstation, I used to have an SGI Onyx 2, pretty neat systems and absurdly powerful for their day.
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Gwaihir posted:I wouldn't charge for it since it's surplus, other than just whatever it took to pack and ship. But, like, that would be a lot, lol Goony Trip report! Me and Cowman drove down from Atlanta to meet up with Gwaihir and picked up the IBMs! 
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priznat posted:I’m really curious to hear about homelab projects too, I can never think of things I want to do yet want to get setups like RPi clusters for no reason Of course, we also have an awesome homelab thread I started for that: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3945277
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 The Power 770s are installed! Will be wiring them up tomorrow and doing initial testing.
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Tried to power up the Power 770s but the HMC is toast so if I want to boot them I'll need another HMC or connect to them serially to boot
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JawnV6 posted:I designed something with a MSP430, it had a capacitive sensor. IIRC ARM's first CPU had this happen where they couldn't turn it off because it would get enough current from the I/O pins to stay on
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eschaton posted:I just built out a little RISC-V workstation! Gotta post some photos!
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Gwaihir posted:Ever get things going to the point of loading up an OS and running any benchmarks btw? Gonna get there, work has had me loaded down.
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Got the Power 770's reset, added to a Virtual HMC, and got a console! Trying to boot Ubuntu from USB via the SMS menu now! Unfortunately it seems to hang after GRUB launches. But progress! In the meantime, we've got all the resources available: 24 CPUs and 256GB of RAM. Took some troubleshooting because it wasn't bringing up both nodes originally, turns out the cross connect bridge was loose. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Aug 9, 2021 |
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This chunky fucker sucked down double my normal amps during the firmware factory reset: Normally hovers around ~7Amps with everything running, this guy added another 7 on top of it. 
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Hasturtium posted:Considering there’s a cheerful lunatic porting Slackware to Power, I’m shocked NetBSD doesn’t support it. Maybe CommieGIR can offer some level of server access to an OSS project. If anyone would like access to a Power VM, sure. Right now gotta get the disks partition and OS setup, but we're 90% of the way there. There's also a Power8 server at work that may fall into my possession here soon.
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Yeah but is Amazon actually ever going to release it to Market outside of having to go through AWS?
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Hasturtium posted:I know nobody’s kicked this thread in a while, but I fell down a bit of a YouTube wormhole learning a bit about PA-RISC. Anybody have thoughts or impressions? Of all the machines I ran into in college computer labs or friend’s eBay-harvested collections, they’re one I never managed to run into. I have one of these on top of my rack, came with several boxes of accessories, manuals, etc. 
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priznat posted:This thread reminded me I had been keeping an eye out for the BeagleV Risc-V SBC, but looks like it got cancelled I think it got spun off: https://www.techradar.com/news/a-risc-v-raspberry-pi-rival-is-about-to-hit-the-market
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Will say I'm a little disappointed Nvidia won't get their hands on ARM's IP. That would've been exciting, monopoly aside.
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priznat posted:It’s interesting as a lot of SoCs are moving away from Arm to Risc-V, I imagine the sale falling through may slow it down a little bit as Arm may be more willing to get competitive with licensing fees? Is it? Honestly most SoCs I see for embedded stuff remain ARM and ARM still has a significant advantage in power consumption. I could be wrong.
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feedmegin posted:I think some SoC vendors and other members of the ecosystem are talking about it specifically to get better deals out of ARM. I don't think there's any kind of seismic shift actually happening. Same as how 32-bit ARM servers were constantly touted as the future a few years ago because that got datacentres better rates out of Intel. Then everyone actually making them, e.g. Cavium, went bust because noone was actually buying it. I'm still pissed AMD and Intel dropped their Hybrid x86-64/ARM CPU plans. That could've been gamechanging.
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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/risc-v-laptop-world-first
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icantfindaname posted:So why has there never been a successful x86 phone or embedded chip? Power consumption for one. ARM from day one had crazy excellent power characteristics, including being able to run off small input voltages from I/O pins which they discovered during its initial development.
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