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General CPU Discussion / Re: 3U HSF End of Life'd

« on: October 04, 2024, 04:22:50 am »

Hopefully this is a sign S1 is coming out quickly[..]

The "talk is cheap" thing they've got going is kind of nice, until it's not any more. Maintaining a joyful anticipation for Talos III/Blackbird II/S1 systems with no news whatsoever for more than 11 months (with the announced release date ending in less than two months) is probably not something people are going to do.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Debian security standards, deflecting questions about SSH2 issue

« on: July 28, 2024, 07:44:15 am »

I find this whole Daniel Pocock vs. Debian and Debian vs. Daniel Pocock thing incredibly icky and prefer to avoid it altogether whenever I stumble across it because it's impossible to form an informed opinion at this stage. Of course, I want to believe that teams members of Debian are not a bunch of idiots, just as I want to believe that Daniel is not as despicable as he is described by some. I also know how it is to be on "bad side" of a character assassination campaign, so I'll definitely remain on the neutral side

"humans are flawed beings"

If anyone feels the need to add more drama to their life, I suggest you travel to Ukraine instead and help within your means. It put a lot of things into perspective for me.
Not everyone is a great communicator, but I firmly believe that even bad communication can be better than cutting each other's heads off... so I hope this will be resolved one way and not the other eventually.

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Blackbird / Re: Availability of P9 hardware post-ISA 3.1 HW launch

« on: June 23, 2024, 03:57:45 pm »

You can find some POWER9 CPUs on ebay but I've never seen a Raptor mainboard there.

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Blackbird / Re: Blackbird for sale (8-core bundle)

« on: December 20, 2023, 05:04:22 am »

We're in the Christmas spirit. The price has been reduced further, to now EUR 1,795 sans VAT.
https://shop.vikings.net/product/blackbird-bundle-8-core-cpu/

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Blackbird / Re: Blackbird for sale (8-core bundle)

« on: December 13, 2023, 04:13:04 am »

The price of this fantastic machine has been reduced to EUR 1,945 without VAT (for buyers outside the EU)
https://shop.vikings.net/product/blackbird-bundle-8-core-cpu/

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Blackbird / Blackbird for sale (8-core bundle)

« on: November 16, 2023, 12:31:58 pm »

https://shop.vikings.net/product/blackbird-bundle-8-core-cpu/
Current price is EUR 1,995 without VAT (for buyers outside the EU)
The location of the system is in the EU/Germany.

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Talos II / Talos II workstation for sale [sold]

« on: September 20, 2023, 06:35:08 am »

We're selling a T2 workstation on behalf of a customer:
https://store.vikings.net/en/talos-ii-secure-workstation

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Mod Zone / Re: Custom cooler mount

« on: June 24, 2023, 01:12:03 pm »

Woof has done an amazing job!

The 3U IBM HSF weighs 637g versus 1220g of the NH-U12A.
I can totally see this with a sturdier custom mount that replaces the Noctua's which in turn will allow for a more even and higher pressure.

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Blackbird / Re: where to list my blackbird?

« on: May 24, 2023, 03:29:47 am »

We're interested.

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Talos II / Re: Unsatisfactory performance of SSD drives

« on: March 07, 2023, 04:35:42 am »

Disk I/O performance is affected by cache, so oflag should be used if you don't want that. That's --direct for hdparm and oflag=direct for dd.

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Blackbird / Re: Onboard nic not working

« on: February 22, 2023, 04:04:59 am »

Is your BMC not working as well?
I've had the same issue with one of my Blackbirds and contacted RaptorCS;

I know there was a manufacturing process change to fix data corruption seen on the first handful of boards, it's very possible this one shipped out prior to the change.

They fixed it by providing an update bundle which I then flashed. When you contact them, provide your ports MAC addresses so can embed that in the image.
They provided the following commands to flash the new image:

Code: [Select]

set +e
echo 0004:01:00.1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/tg3/unbind
set -e
bcmflash -t raw -i 1 -r bcm5719.rom[After powering down and removing the system from your wall socket, boot it up again and it should work as expected.

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Blackbird / Re: SATA ports on the fritz?

« on: February 21, 2023, 05:52:21 am »

Only two weeks? Wow!
And everything working now?

Yes, I'm honestly a little shocked. They were great about communicating with me, and I've been pleased as punch that a replacement came in, I moved everything to a newer case with better cable management, and it all just... came right back up.

Not related but CWCID; I also had an issue last week and the responses from Timothy came flying like raptors.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Linux 6.2 brings new qspinlock to bolster large system scalability

« on: December 21, 2022, 03:10:47 am »

[..]testing on upwards of 16 sockets with 1,920 CPU threads[..]

Probably not, we only have two sockets. I also don't believe that 16-socket machines are over-the-counter computers.
I thought these days most companies run their stuff on virtualized commodity hardware #strengthinnumbers.

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Blackbird / Re: [changed my mind! keeping] Blackbird, 8 core CPU, 32GB RAM, & Radeon Pro W5500

« on: December 14, 2022, 03:17:01 am »

Stickin' around like a proper German climate activist glues themself to the road, I hope. POWER is probably going to be one of the very few options we have in the foreseeable future.

I guess this topic can be closed?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Debian 11 is out

« on: December 02, 2022, 06:05:46 am »

Sorry guys, if I want to update mesa drivers and firmware on Debian 11, which procedure should I use?  Thanks always!

One solution might be to dist-upgrade to testing (currently Bookworm) where things are more up to date. On my test system it's stable (though the number of updates you get each day feels a bit like a rolling-release distro).

Testing doesn't usually get security fixes as quick (or at all), though, unless you get those from unstable. So that's something to keep in mind. Then again it's more difficult to keep the system up to date with an increasing number of packages installed from source. With just the graphics stack built from source that's probably not going to be a problem, so that would be another option I guess.