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Applications and Porting / Re: Suggestion: BOINC -> Seti@home (sah)

« on: November 26, 2019, 03:29:19 pm »

Do you happen to know if it had AltiVec support at any point in the past?  Would it make more sense to enable GPU support via e.g. AMD HIP vs. focusing on the CPU optimizations?

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Talos II / Re: Talos User's Survival Kit/New Talos User's Shopping List

« on: November 25, 2019, 07:28:42 pm »

Looks good as an initial start -- might want to emphasize that some of those tools (SPI reprogrammer, etc.) are only needed if you really want to dive into the guts of the machine, otherwise it might scare new users off.  You can easily break an x86 system to the point of needing an external reprogrammer as well, so let's not put POWER at a public disadvantage for no good reason.