Re: Tyan introduces 1U POWER8-based OpenPOWER server for HPC

So these chips run little endian or big endian? Are there different
assembly langues/opcodes in each mode? Is one the native one and the other
one translated?

More importantly, is one mode faster than the other mode?

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 9:04 PM Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <
yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Unfortunately, no. You can't run any big endian software on OpenPower
machines. They are limited to the Opal (IIRC) firmware which locks the CPU
to the little endian mode. You can run Ubuntu and any other flavor of Linux
compiled for ppc-el but no AIX and no IBM i. Also, no PowerVM, only
PowerKVM.
That doesnt mean that these machines aren't nice beasts that i'd like to
play with.
I'm waiting to see if the bosses will buy me a developer 2U server from
Tyan that has a power8, just to see if we can use it to tempt customers to
migrate linux workloads to LoP.

Best Regards,

Roberto

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

So can I run IBM i OS on it or just AIX and Power Linux?

Secondly, would it even make sense. This machine screams for data
collection for quantative finance with C++ software.

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016, 18:06 Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Nice to see movement in the OpenPower arena.
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