Fwd: GNU Guix POWER9 OpenStack application (was: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?)

2019-12-13 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tobias Geerinckx-rice 写道: PS: For the shorter term, I've applied for an 8-core POWER9 LE instance (with 16 GiB of RAM) for Guix at OSUOSL[1]. Assuming that it's accepted, it should be available within a week. Lance Albertson via RT 写道: On Thu Dec 12 17:21:37 2019, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-12-08 Thread dftxbs3e
On 12/9/19 1:19 AM, Chris Marusich wrote: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: 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)! However, few (if any) Guixers have any hands

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-12-08 Thread Chris Marusich
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > 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)! > > However, few (if any) Guixers have any hands-on experience with this > archit

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-12-01 Thread dftxbs3e
Hello, There is libre firmware being worked on, latest news say that it does work but some features are not implemented. I have not tested that firmware however. There is a contest organized by RaptorCS to liberate the firmware: https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/nic_fw_contest.php And here'

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-11-29 Thread Marco van Hulten
Hello— On 29 Nov 09:25 dftxbs3e wrote: > I'm really happy to hear this! I also do own a POWER9 machine. > > I have a Talos II with 2x 8 SMT4 cores POWER9 DD2.2 CPUs (64 threads), > 64GB of RAM and an AMD WX7100 GPU (amdgpu libre driver). > > I run Fedora on it since more than a year now, it's b

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-11-29 Thread dftxbs3e
Hello, I'm really happy to hear this! I also do own a POWER9 machine. I have a Talos II with 2x 8 SMT4 cores POWER9 DD2.2 CPUs (64 threads), 64GB of RAM and an AMD WX7100 GPU (amdgpu libre driver). I run Fedora on it since more than a year now, it's been my main workstation without any major

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-11-28 Thread Leo Famulari
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 a

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-11-28 Thread Jonathan Brielmaier
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 experie

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-11-27 Thread Brett Gilio
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > 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)! I was curious the other day looking at multiarch compilation using the qemu-binf

New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-11-27 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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)! However, few (if any) Guixers have any hands-on experience with this architecture, let alone buying and installing w