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♡ Eva Winterschön ♡💻 Hello Old Friend, Talos II 💻This was my first IBM POWER9 system, acquired in 2020 and built for home/desk use. Dual socket SMT4 Sforza, 144 threads, 256-512GB RAM, various storage/net/accelerators over the years. [1]As expected, I fell in love and acquired four IBM Power System L922-2U [2], which are presently in the colo awaiting network rebuild (remote hands this time).The Talos II has served a variety of purposes, with most of its time running FreeBSD PPC64le (&a bit of PPC64be for fun). Sometimes also Linux, back when I was tearing into qemu code for compiler optimization hypothesis testing, RTX GPU passthrough, +validating assumptions about qemu on P9/le handling amd64 & arm64 emulation.So, out of storage! Into the rack! New user accounts! But first it needs updated OS drives (the 3x 64GB SATADOM in Raid-Z1 need to be repurposed), and a NIC (25G-DP CX-5 or X710-DA4).- [1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#Raptor_Computing_Systems_/_Raptor_Engineering" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#Raptor_Computing_Systems_/_Raptor_Engineering</a> - [2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#IBM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#IBM</a><a href="https://bsd.network/@dexter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dexter</a> electricity comes next 🧠 <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/POWER9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#POWER9</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/PPC64le" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PPC64le</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RaptorTalos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RaptorTalos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FMT2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FMT2</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/colo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/datacenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#datacenter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/onprem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onprem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homelab</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hardware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#engineering</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/goodtimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goodtimes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sunday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meditation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/whiteNoiseGeneratorsLulMeToSleep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whiteNoiseGeneratorsLulMeToSleep</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/WomenInTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInSTEM</a>

Gábor SAMUUtilizing <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a> Spectrum <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/LSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LSF</a> Simulator to Understand the Impacts of Adding <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> Workloads to Capability Supercomputing <a href="https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2205452" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2205452</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/POWER9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#POWER9</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/openpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openpower</a>

Eva WinterschönInventory day! Spreadsheets! :ablobfoxbongo: :blobfoxupsidedowndizzy: Sometimes my <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homelab</a> equipment gets out of hand and needs to be sorted. Surely these boxes haven't been around my desk for maybe two weeks? Surely not.👩‍💻 Looking forward to <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/holiday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#holiday</a> time off to rest a restless busy brain, wrap up the NanoPi.cloud <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/embedded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#embedded</a> cluster project, get those three <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/POWER9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#POWER9</a> systems online!, and maybe spend a bit less time staring off into the void at too-early hours of every morning. :heart_cyber:

Eva WinterschönIt's usually the sign of a good day when a miscellaneous cat6a matches the flowers on my dress. 💁🏼‍♀️ Secondary to ethernet distractions, it's definitely a good day when two additional <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Nvidia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nvidia</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> T40 datacenter GPUs arrive for the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homelab</a>! Now the question becomes whether to install both immediately, or wait until another is sourced so that each of the new <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/POWER9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#POWER9</a> systems will deploy with the same spec. Decisions... 🧠

Marcel van der Boom@jrozanski@mastodon.online the machine is my daily driver highlights: many vm-s, compiling packages (guix/yay), development in python/lisp/scheme/haskell, testing/simulating server loads. If it is suitable for what you outline I can`t say. I personally would be ok with it.The machine has excellent IO options, great multithread performance, mediocre single thread performance.It`s basically a server oriented design. <a href="https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Main_Page</a> is a great resource for all things <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/talos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#talos</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/power9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power9</a>

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