From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:52:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191128165257.GA18583@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06cd201c-0cf1-1e7c-998b-c876eed59a29@web.de>
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:57:19AM +0100, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote:
> 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).
It's good to hear this kind of positive experience about these new
machines!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-28 16:53 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
2019-11-28 16:52 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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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