thus John R Pierce spake:
> On 01/18/11 10:51 PM, Geoff Galitz wrote:
>>> Wrong on the demise of the Sparc. Oracle just posted a massively
>>> record breaking TPC-C benchmark using their new Sparc T3 servers,
>>> something like 30 MILLION TPM.
>> Oracle has very publically committed to keeping SPARC strong, which is good
>> news for those of us believe in diversity in the compute-verse. Even so,
>> SPARC is also supported by Fujitsu, so as they... "[SPARC's] demise has been
>> greatly exaggerated."
>>
>>
>>> There's also Power aka PPC, formerly used in Apple Macintosh computers,
>>> and still used on large scale IBM AIX Unix servers, the Power series.
>>> These also are very high performance.
>> Just a minor nit here, POWER is not the same thing as PPC. PPC branched
>> from POWER with strong influences from other vendors and technologies. PPC
>> has since evolved into a mostly embedded platform, though later POWER
>> releases are (mostly) compatible with PPC.
>
> the Power6 and Power7 have the altvec and most of the rest of the PPC
> extensions. when you compile for the power, if you are using gcc, you
> generally specify ppc as the architecture. With IBM's XLC, of course,
> you specify Power 4 or 5 or 6 or 7. Power 5 and later have extensive
> virtualization support native in the hardware, enabling LPAR
> partitioning of servers.
>
> of course, this has nothing to do with centos, as far as I know, RH gave
> up supporting Power,
No, they didn't. RHEL6 is available for IBM Power:
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Release_Notes/introduction.html
> and Sooshay was the official IBM distribution.
> with Novell imploding, I'm not sure what happened with Suse.
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