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Applications and Porting / Re: [HELP] Does Loupe application work for you?
« on: July 17, 2025, 09:36:52 am »
Sorry, I forgot. Chimera Linux.
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Applications and Porting / Re: [HELP] Does Loupe application work for you?
« on: July 16, 2025, 09:28:57 am »
Yes. I opened a jpg and a png. Both works.
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General CPU Discussion / Re: Power11 announced by IBM
« on: July 11, 2025, 04:08:38 pm »
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IBM Power11 E1150 Introduction and Technical Overview
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POWER9 clients upgrading to Power11 can reduce energy consumption by up to 60% for the same performance. Power11 outperforms x86 systems, providing twice the performance per watt. Compared to Power10, Power11 offers up to 33% better performance per watt, with the S1022 showing the largest gain.
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Energy Efficient Mode
Power11 has introduced a new Energy Efficient mode that, when enabled, can reduce energy consumption by up to 30%, with only an approximate 10% reduction in performance. This impact will vary depending on the system and configuration. The power mode can be dynamically established through the HMC GUI, as illustrated in Figure 1-8.
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New P11 Processor Details
Here are some details on the new Power11 processor design:
Technology and Packaging:
– 602mm2 7nm Samsung (18B Devices)
– 18-layer metal stack, enhanced device
– Single-chip or Dual-chip sockets
Computational Capabilities:
– Up to 16 SMT8 Cores (2 MB L2 Cache / core)
– Up to 128 MB L3 cache (low latency non-uniform cache architecture management)
– Enterprise performance focus:
• 3x core performance relative to POWER9
• 2x thread strength relative to POWER9
• 4x L2 cache, 4xMMU/ core relative to POWER9
• 4x crypto engine / core relative to POWER9
– AI computational Focus:
• 2x general SIMD / core relative to POWER9
• 4x matrix SIMD / core relative to POWER9
• New AI Instructions and data types
Robust Data Plane:
– 2 TB/s raw (32GT/s) PowerAXON + OMI signaling
– SMP interconnect for up to 16 sockets
– 2x2 OMI memory bandwidth relative to POWER9
– 64 TB OMI DDR large system memory capacity
– x64 PCIe Gen5 / DCM:2xbandwidth relative to POWER9
IBM Power11 E1150 Introduction and Technical Overview
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General CPU Discussion / Re: Power11 announced by IBM
« on: July 09, 2025, 09:21:18 am »
What is also interesting:
The Register
Talospace
I wonder if IBM will sell defective 16-core Power11 as 8 or 4-core Power11 to Raptor.
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While Power11 doesn't appear to offer any more cores per socket than Power10, Big Blue says those cores are substantially more efficient. With the new chips, IBM is introducing the concept of resource groups, a firmware feature that aims to maximize utilization and increase performance without driving up energy consumption. The chips also feature an energy-saving mode that trades a little bit of performance for a 28 percent improvement in efficiency.
The Register
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UPDATE: I have been advised by an anonymous individual with knowledge of the situation that a new Raptor announcement on products under development is scheduled for Q1 2026 ... which would be "six to twelve months after" as predicted. "Open firmware" is specifically mentioned and absolutely planned. It's worth pointing out that both Raptor and SolidSilicon are now listed as top-tier Platinum members for OpenPOWER parallel with IBM itself. That implies SolidSilicon is still in the mix and IBM is still backing OpenPOWER. They stressed this is not an official announcement, so you take it for what it's worth.]
Talospace
I wonder if IBM will sell defective 16-core Power11 as 8 or 4-core Power11 to Raptor.
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General Discussion / Re: Is Raptor Computing Systems still open for business?
« on: February 17, 2025, 02:02:41 pm »
His mail address you find here:
https://github.com/madscientist159
https://github.com/madscientist159
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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT and 6900 XT status?
« on: February 15, 2025, 07:26:14 am »
From the wiki:
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AMD Radeon RX 6600 (XT) (Navi 23) - "amdgpu" driver works with 6.1.0, 6.2.0, 6.3.0, 6.4.0, 6.5.0, 6.8.0, 6.9.0, 6.10 and 6.11 in both 4k and 64k pagesize in LE; anything older does not work. Not tested with petitboot. Issues noted on a Sapphire Pulse RX 6600 with X server stability and twitchy application behavior; XFX Speedster SWFT 210 RX 6600 has run without incident or issue.
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT - Works fine with Gentoo (Linux 6.3.3) with 4KiB page size, LE. Not tested with BE or 64KiB. Not tested in Skiroot.
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General Discussion / Re: Is Raptor Computing Systems still open for business?
« on: February 15, 2025, 07:23:12 am »
If no one answers, I would write an email directly to Tim.
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General Discussion / Re: Is Raptor Computing Systems still open for business?
« on: February 11, 2025, 06:17:27 am »
You don't need premium to ask something.
https://x.com/foxbat/status/1775614146937082242
https://x.com/foxbat/status/1775614146937082242
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General Discussion / Re: Is Raptor Computing Systems still open for business?
« on: February 10, 2025, 07:33:08 pm »
The best way to contact them is on X or Timothy via mail.
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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.
« on: February 01, 2025, 07:35:37 pm »
If prices around 500usd turn out to be true, then it would be worth buying. At least for my Intel box.
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Applications and Porting / Re: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest (OpenMoHAA)
« on: January 20, 2025, 07:01:36 pm »
A lot of people are running Debian sid (big-endian) on G4/ G5/ POWER9.
Fienix, BTW is based on Debian sid.
On a PCIe G5 you could run even a TeraScale GPU on Linux.
Edit: Boot issues with debian-installer on ppc64
Fienix, BTW is based on Debian sid.
On a PCIe G5 you could run even a TeraScale GPU on Linux.
Edit: Boot issues with debian-installer on ppc64
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Applications and Porting / Re: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest (OpenMoHAA)
« on: January 20, 2025, 12:53:25 pm »13
Blackbird / Re: BMC Fails to Boot
« on: January 13, 2025, 07:42:33 pm »
You don't need any cables. Just ssh into it.
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Blackbird / Re: BMC Fails to Boot
« on: January 13, 2025, 05:39:38 am »
You could also check the PSU.
Surprisingly, the PSU was often the cause of such problems.
Edit: Here is also a checklist.
Surprisingly, the PSU was often the cause of such problems.
Edit: Here is also a checklist.
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Applications and Porting / Re: [NEWS] dotNet SDK officially supported PPC64LE
« on: December 20, 2024, 11:48:52 am »
For .NET 7 build-scripts are available for Ubuntu.
