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What is the point in this thread?

To slide a better thread off the board?

>>857946

>What is the point in this thread?

To get ideas on what to do with expensive computers I don't typically get to use and talk with

people who do about what they use it for.

>>857954

Why POWER, out of many?

>>857962

Becuse it's a POWER server I can barrow for a bit, I'm not buying it but if I have fun I might get my own.

>857963

Unless it's POWER 8 or 9 based, don't bother.

>>857982

I think it's power 8 but It might be power 7.

>>857988

Might as well get a wii if its a 7.

We need an open VAX, 128 bit, something with a shit fuckin ton of instructions, to compete with this RISC cancer.

>>857999

Why do you say that?

>>858020

He's a retard who doesn't know the difference between POWER and PowerPC.

>>high performance

>>not x86

thats too much hassle to design and sell at reasonable price

POWER/PowerPC is widely supported by the major Linux distros. One thing you'll want to pay attention to is endianess. Most ppc/POWER platforms only support big endian (BE), but beginning with POWER8 little endian (LE/EL) is fullly supported along with BE. However kernels can only run in one mode at a time, and the major Linux distributions are shifting to LE and dropping support for BE.

If your CPU is POWER7 or below you'll need to load a distro with powerpc64, otherwise use powerpc64le.

>>858058

The single reason this overengineered inefficient hunk of shit is even affordable is its enormous production scale. If you can launch with millions of units per month, chip of any reasonable complexity will be cheaper than x86. Just look at ARM.