Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Still there is a need for Linux on those machines - and that might be the reason that Red Hat and SuSE (and others) offer Linux for PPC64.
The IBM Power4 and 5 are the main targets for the upstream providers version for PPC. There is a need for it, particulary in HPC installations. Generally AIX is a better options on them than Linux, but it depends on what software you want to run on the boxes. The hardware is in many ways similar to many PC server parts... Adaptec SCSI HBAs, Broadcom ethernet, Mylex FC HBAs, DDR2 memory, PCI slots... but a main difference is the chipsets and I/O bandwidth available.
Oh, and the hardware hypervisor. That is sweet. When you make a partition to run an OS is, you select the PCI slots you want available to it, the amount of memory, the amount of CPU(s) with lots of config options... and you have virtual I/O options for network, disk and consoles. The hypervisor provides a virtual Ethernet switch that emulates 1Gbps Ethernet, but it runs at much higher speeds :) And all allocated resources can be dynamic... so you can add and remove PCI slots, memory, CPU on the fly. Nice machines :)
Sadly, I don't have a Power4 or 5 box on the net either, else I would be glad to donate a partition to CentOS.
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