From: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>, Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:57:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <06cd201c-0cf1-1e7c-998b-c876eed59a29@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rtsakoq.fsf@nckx>
On 28.11.19 01:50, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Fellow Guix,
>
> The Guix sysadmins are considering buying shiny hardware for the
> ci.guix.gnu.org build farm, and it would be awesome if that included our
> first POWER9 machine(s)!
This would be very neat.
> So please, share your expertise and experience in this area! Ideally, we
> need someone to volunteer to (help) set up any new POWER9 boxes and
> later take care of them when needed. It would certainly help justify
> the multi-thousand-euro bill.
I own now a RaptorCS Blackbird[0] with an 8 core CPU and 32GiB RAM for
half a year. I use it as my daily desktop driver. It runs openSUSE
Tumblweed[1].
Setup was quite easy if you only want to use it as server without an
GPU. You only need a long enough (ca 15cm) 4mm hex key to screw the fan
on to the CPU. I could borrow mine.
The rest of the installation and setup process wasn't that different
from installing a x86 server. The nice thing is the openBMC chip, so
remote management is quite nice :)
All in all the biggest pain point for me, was getting the machine
through the customs. But I heard from people in the EU who had a pretty
smooth experience with that.
I offer my help in the whole process (ordering, customs, setup,
installation, maintenance).
~Jonathan
P.S: It might be worth to ask RaptorCS and IBM, if they could give us
some discounts.
[0] https://raptorcs.com/content/BK1B02/intro.html
[1] https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/tumbleweed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-28 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-28 0:50 New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm? Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-11-28 4:01 ` Brett Gilio
2019-11-28 10:57 ` Jonathan Brielmaier [this message]
2019-11-28 16:52 ` Leo Famulari
2019-11-29 8:25 ` dftxbs3e
2019-11-29 12:50 ` Marco van Hulten
2019-12-01 20:35 ` dftxbs3e
2019-12-09 0:19 ` Chris Marusich
2019-12-09 1:22 ` dftxbs3e
2019-12-13 18:55 ` Fwd: GNU Guix POWER9 OpenStack application (was: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?) Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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