[Staffslug] Unicamp in Brazil joins the Linux OpenPower project

Hello again! Its been a few months since the last email I've sent... Since my last email, we've added another University server to the growing list of universities now hosting POWER5 servers and hardware for everyone to use for free. Developers, system administrators, tinkerers, the curious and anyone else who wants to give them a try. The new Gentoo and Debian PPC partitions on the UNICAMP server need your help! Find out what's missing, load test it, put it through its paces and let them know what can be done to improve things for everyone. Wait, did he just say for free? Yes, free shell access to POWER5 servers with plenty of disk, memory and other capabilities. We've launched quite a few of these in the past at other universities (details below). UNICAMP, the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil is hosting a POWER5 server that we've recently deployed there. This server is a bit unique, because it will be hosting several different Linux distributions on separate LPARs of the same physical machine, concurrently. Right now there are two live partitions; Gentoo and Debian, and there are plans to add Slackware and Fedora LPAR very shortly. But we need your help to load test this server (without breaking it, of course ;). Create an account, pull over some source code from some of your favorite projects and try building and testing it under the POWER architecture. Each server offers its own configuration and options with your own remote shell account. We're going to be the first of these PowerPC universities hosting this many distributions at one time, and the first university hosting a Slackware/PPC64 partition. When those other distrbutions come online, you should automatically be able to log into them and continue to work in your shell with the same account you use on the other partitions. Here are the servers currently online: *** UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas http://power.ic.unicamp.br -------------------------------------------------------- Server........: Open Power 720 Equipment.....: 4-way POWER5 Memory........: 8GB Installation..: Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, Fedora Gentoo....: 143.106.24.152 Debian....: 143.106.24.153 Fedora....: To be announced Slackware.: To be announced Oregon State University Open Source Labs: http://powerdev.osuosl.org/ -------------------------------------------------------- Server........: Apple PowerMac G5 Equipment.....: 2-Way 2.5Ghz Memory........: 4GB Installation..: Gentoo Linux SourceForge.net compile farm, with OpenPower http://sourceforge.net/docs/compile_farm#cf_overview -------------------------------------------------------- Server........: OpenPower 720 Installation..: SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 Australia National University http://clug.anu.edu.au/ -------------------------------------------------------- Server........: OpenPower 720 Equipment.....: 4-Way POWER5 Memory........: 2GB Installation..: Debian University of Augsburg, in Augsburg Germany (Debian) http://tuxppc.rz.uni-augsburg.de/ -------------------------------------------------------- Server........: OpenPower 720 Equipment.....: 4-Way POWER5 Memory........: 8GB Installation..: Debian Peking University, Peking China (SuSE) http://ppclinux.pku.edu.cn/ -------------------------------------------------------- Server........: OpenPower 720 Equipment.....: 4-Way POWER5 Memory........: 16GB Installation..: SuSE Enterprise 9 Take a few moments and check out what these POWER systems actually feel like under the hood. Sign up and log in remotely to one of the University systems we've set up and take them for a test drive. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/openpower/ If you need any help or have any questions, just let us know! -- David A. Desrosiers daviddes(a)us.ibm.com Linux on POWER Developer Program Manager http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/openpower/