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If you need it - you can't buy a fully auditable, fully open source, owner controlled x86 system at any price. Also, you can buy a Talos II Lite or a Blackbird
by justinjlynn 7y ago
If you need it - you can't buy a fully auditable, fully open source, owner controlled x86 system at any price.
Also, you can buy a Talos II Lite or a Blackbird off the shelf for much less. There are options.
- mikekchar 7y agoWhat is the performance like compared to an x86 system? I'm quite interested.
- justinjlynn 7y agoQuite comparable - Phoronix did some benchmarks in the past ( https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Talos+II https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Talos+II ) and while performance wasn't always the greatest - the community has quickly responded in making things better by either addressing shortfalls in the benchmarks themselves ( https://sthbrx.github.io/blog/2018/08/15/improving-performance-of-phoronix-benchmarks-on-power9/ https://sthbrx.github.io/blog/2018/08/15/improving-performan... ) or by bringing optimisations to the platform which x86 already benefits from ( https://www.bountysource.com/teams/ibm/bounties https://www.bountysource.com/teams/ibm/bounties (as just an example)).
- classichasclass 7y agoI'm extremely satisfied with the performance of my system and that's with good availability of software packages but relatively little Power-specific optimizations. As these start getting added, I expect it to get even better. As it is I don't distinguish much, if any, performance delta between this and a conventional x86_64 workstation and it has been my daily driver almost since the day it arrived.