Hi Paul, Thanks a lot! OSU has approved my application and provisioned a PPC server for me. Now I can start testing code on PPC :-). For the ARM server, the application is still in progress. I'll let you know if there are any updates. Thank! --JunchangOn Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 1:51 AM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 11:23:17AM +0800, Junchang Wang wrote: > > Forward to list perfbook since the last mail was blocked due to the > > non-plain-text issue. > > > > > > Hi Paul and list, > > > > I'm again reading the excellent 15th chapter (Advanced > > Synchronization), which helps me eventually understand how a > > hardware/compiler can optimize--and hence ``break''-- my parallelized > > code :-). > > > > I really want to get my hands dirty and to test my code and samples in > > perfbook on real servers. However, all servers in my lab are x86. I > > wonder if there is any chance that we can have access to architectures > > other than x86 to test code. For example, are there any cloud service > > that provides access to POWER or ARM architecture? > > For POWER access for academic or open-source projects, please see here: > > https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/request_hosting/ > > There are said to be similar services for ARM, for example: > > https://thenewstack.io/cncf-packet-team-provide-free-infrastructure-cloud-developers > > Please let me know how it goes! > > Thanx, Paul >
