RaptorCS's redemption: the POWER9 machine works

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Post by ddevault » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 1:01 PM UTC

RaptorCS's redemption: the POWER9 machine works
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Post by equalunique » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 1:26 PM UTC

Source hut build slave for ppc64? Groundbreaking!

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 1:51 PM UTC

> However, I refuse to give any company credit for waking up their support team only when a scathing article about them frontpages on Hacker News. I told them I wouldn’t publish a positive follow-up unless they also convinced me that the support experience had been fixed for the typical user as well.

You are a gem and I wish more people were like you.

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Post by trollied » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

Original issue thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21049093

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Post by nicoburns » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 2:26 PM UTC

> I am quite impressed with it so far. Installation was a breeze, it compiles the kernel on 32 cores from spinning rust in 4m15s

Does anyone know how this compares to a recent x86 machine? This seems quite fast for the entire kernel, but I have no idea what typical build times are like.

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 2:31 PM UTC

nicoburns wrote: post #5

> I am quite impressed with it so far. Installation was a breeze, it compiles the kernel on 32 cores from spinning rust in 4m15s Does anyone know how this compares to a recent x86 machine? This seems quite fast for the entire kernel, but I have no idea what typical build times are like.

It's competitive with x86_64. Here are some more comprehensive benchmarks:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=blackbir...

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Post by greatpatton » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 2:51 PM UTC

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #6

nicoburns wrote: post #5

> I am quite impressed with it so far. Installation was a breeze, it compiles the kernel on 32 cores from spinning rust in 4m15s Does anyone know how this compares to a recent x86 machine? This seems quite fast for the entire kernel, but I have no idea what typical build times are like.

It's competitive with x86_64. Here are some more comprehensive benchmarks: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=blackbir...

This one is a little more relevant for a server: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=rome-pow...

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Post by kop316 » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 3:00 PM UTC

equalunique wrote: post #2

Source hut build slave for ppc64? Groundbreaking!

To ask the dumb question, what is source hut? It looks essentially like Gitlab to me.

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 3:02 PM UTC

kop316 wrote: post #8

equalunique wrote: post #2

Source hut build slave for ppc64? Groundbreaking!

To ask the dumb question, what is source hut? It looks essentially like Gitlab to me.

Not a dumb question. https://sourcehut.org should tell you what you need to know. If you have any specific questions, I can answer them.

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Post by Un1corn » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 3:05 PM UTC

kop316 wrote: post #8

equalunique wrote: post #2

Source hut build slave for ppc64? Groundbreaking!

To ask the dumb question, what is source hut? It looks essentially like Gitlab to me.

It can do the same tasks like Gitlab (Git hosting, issue tracking, CI and more) but it does it in a different way that is more similar to the workflow of the Linux kernel and other big open source projects.

For example instead of pull requests, you have mailing lists in which you send patches. You can see more in the website of Sourcehut: https://sourcehut.org