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From what I've read, the latest POWER9 servers from IBM are very competitive (on performance, not necessarily price). Newer chips that run PPC ISA support ppc64
by seabrookmx 7y ago
From what I've read, the latest POWER9 servers from IBM are very competitive (on performance, not necessarily price). Newer chips that run PPC ISA support ppc64el (little-endian mode) so that porting software is significantly easier. gcc has a mature backend for this instruction set so it's a simple recompile in many cases on Linux.
PPC machines are also required if for some reason you're still running AIX, IIRC.
- raverbashing 7y ago> PPC machines are also required if for some reason you're still running AIX, IIRC. It's probably a way of making more money out of those legacy customers (yes because if you're still running AIX you're deep down in legacy territory, and you might just want to look at recompiling your stuff for Linux but chose to suffer instead)
- seabrookmx 7y ago100% IBM will let you run your ancient apps, and on mainframes even apps back as far as OS/360. But you have to pay for it.