From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F27341396D0 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:49:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 912A1E0BE7; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:49:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 465B5E0BCB for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:49:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Anthonys-MacBook-Pro.local (cpe-67-247-195-186.buffalo.res.rr.com [67.247.195.186]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: blueness) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EB41F33BF43 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PowerPC Resources at OSU To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20170912213044.44106277@symphony.aura-online.co.uk> From: "Anthony G. Basile" Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:49:20 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170912213044.44106277@symphony.aura-online.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8f8efa91-b3ef-4c3d-a364-73e1d31434a0 X-Archives-Hash: 009b31bf5fd77250381a6a6db7b3d7fa On 9/12/17 4:30 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:29:10 -0500 > R0b0t1 wrote: > >> 1) May I have access to a/the POWER server, or some other suitable >> POWER resource? If not, >> 2) is anyone available to verify that I am associated with the project >> or that I will use the resources for project related work? >> >> My intent is to experiment with the PowerPC architecture, specifically >> features found on newer POWER processors and servers. It is unlikely I >> will ever get to do this on my own as the machines run $10k-$30k. I >> requested services from OSU because GCC was not able to accommodate my >> request for hypervisor access on their system. >> >> However, having finally found the resources I've been looking for this >> whole time, it looks like OSU's nodes are virtualized and won't be >> able to do exactly what I want anyway (i.e. the GCC sysadmin was >> misinformed), so I may have accidentally wasted people's time and >> potentially tarnished Gentoo's reputation. I will make amends as best >> I can. > > As of a few months ago, we have two POWER8 guests, one big endian > (timberdoodle) and one little endian (bogsucker). We would just have > one but you can't mix big and little endian on the same system. > > After the old POWER7 timberdoodle died, I was responsible for creating > these new instances with some help from prometheanfire. Replacing > CentOS systems that had tied up all the storage from the other side of > the world with no direct raw access was an interesting challenge! > > I didn't intend to manage the systems long term though as I only use > them for building and testing Java stuff. I consider prometheanfire, > blueness, and vapier to be in charge though you may struggle getting > hold of the latter two. > > We generally only give access to devs but I am aware of one exception > we made for gnu_andrew, who works for Red Hat and provides our icedtea > ebuilds. Unfortunately I've only seen you on this list but hopefully > someone can vouch for you. I don't know whether these guests will be > suitable for your needs though. > I've been using timberdoodle, but not bogsucker. I haven't been following this thread, but if its a question of maintaining those machines, I can help out with that. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : blueness@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA