This message is intended as follow-up to this thread: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-September/013792.html
Rackspace is building a POWER8 based OpenPOWER server, in an Open Compute form factor. Its codename is Barreleye. Specs and target use cases are as follows:
Specs:
* CPU / Memory
o 2 sockets
o 32 DIMM slots
o 8 Centaurs
* IO
o 2 x8 OCP Mezzanine slots
o 1 x16 FHFL PCI-E slot
o 1 x8 HHFL PCI-E slot
o 1 x8 HHHL PCI-E slot
* Storage
o Systems are currently using LSI / Avago 3108 ROCs (9361-8i), but could support other ROCs
o LSI / Avago SAS Expander
o 15 x2.5" hot swap drives
o 1 internal M.2 SATA card slot
* BMC
o AST2400 Chip, with internal development targeting OpenBMC
? More here: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/08/14/facebooks-openbmc-can... -- there's similar, collaborative work going on for Barreleye.
There's a picture of a Barreleye rack, at Rackspace, here: https://twitter.com/Calista_Redmond/status/636367178355245056/photo/1
Use cases:
* OpenStack with KVM (for an IaaS platform)
* Container Platform (LXC, Docker, etc)
* Bare metal host for popular applications like LAMP, Nginx, Wordpress, Go environments, and so forth
* Big data apps starting with Mongo, but also including Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop, and Spark
* CAPI accelerator environments
We believe demand for POWER-based CentOS will be similar to our x86 demand (which is to say, significant). We hope to see it get to launch-grade quality for at least virtual machines, if not bare metal, over the next few months.
--Aaron
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hi Aaron,
On 11/09/15 15:16, Aaron Sullivan wrote:
Rackspace is building a POWER8 based OpenPOWER server, in an Open Compute form factor. Its codename is Barreleye.
§ More here: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/08/14/facebooks-openbmc-can... -- there’s similar, collaborative work going on for Barreleye.
There’s a picture of a Barreleye rack, at Rackspace, here: https://twitter.com/Calista_Redmond/status/636367178355245056/photo/1
sounds good, I see there has been quite a bit of progress on this in the last few months. Our aim is to build out the platform side of the OS and then encourage ecosystem involvement from the Special Interest Groups and from the wider community around power / openpower running CentOS.
We believe demand for POWER-based CentOS will be similar to our x86 demand (which is to say, significant). We hope to see it get to launch-grade quality for at least virtual machines, if not bare metal, over the next few months.
Would be great to see you guys get involved in the effort in the CentOS Project - do you have any thoughts around that ?
regards
Hi Karanbir,
Much of what we're doing right now is around test/bug isolation/patching/integration of certain popular IO devices and firmware, part and parcel for enabling Barreleye in general. If you had something more expanded in mind, feel free to contact me directly. I'd be happy to chat. We're somewhat new to this particular space (Linux on POWER development), and feeling open-minded.
--Aaron
-----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 9:25 AM To: centos-devel@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] CentOS-7 / ppc64le System Architectures
hi Aaron,
On 11/09/15 15:16, Aaron Sullivan wrote:
Rackspace is building a POWER8 based OpenPOWER server, in an Open Compute form factor. Its codename is Barreleye.
§ More here: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/08/14/facebooks-openb mc-can-now-do-facebook-server-management/ -- there's similar, collaborative work going on for Barreleye.
There's a picture of a Barreleye rack, at Rackspace, here: https://twitter.com/Calista_Redmond/status/636367178355245056/photo/1
sounds good, I see there has been quite a bit of progress on this in the last few months. Our aim is to build out the platform side of the OS and then encourage ecosystem involvement from the Special Interest Groups and from the wider community around power / openpower running CentOS.
We believe demand for POWER-based CentOS will be similar to our x86 demand (which is to say, significant). We hope to see it get to launch-grade quality for at least virtual machines, if not bare metal, over the next few months.
Would be great to see you guys get involved in the effort in the CentOS Project - do you have any thoughts around that ?
regards
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Aaron Sullivan aaron.sullivan@rackspace.com wrote:
This message is intended as follow-up to this thread: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-September/013792.html
Rackspace is building a POWER8 based OpenPOWER server, in an Open Compute form factor. Its codename is Barreleye. Specs and target use cases are as follows:
Specs:
· CPU / Memory
o 2 sockets
o 32 DIMM slots
o 8 Centaurs
This might be a bit off-topic, but is the memory config 32 (industry standard) DIMMs + 8 centaur DIMMs?
-Jacob
Memory config is 8 Centaurs, at 4 DIMMs per Centaur. Standard DIMM slot package, not CDIMMs. Centaurs are also down on the board, rather than on a riser.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jacob Yundt Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 10:38 AM To: The CentOS developers mailing list. Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] CentOS-7 / ppc64le System Architectures
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Aaron Sullivan aaron.sullivan@rackspace.com wrote:
This message is intended as follow-up to this thread: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-September/013792. html
Rackspace is building a POWER8 based OpenPOWER server, in an Open Compute form factor. Its codename is Barreleye. Specs and target use cases are as follows:
Specs:
· CPU / Memory
o 2 sockets
o 32 DIMM slots
o 8 Centaurs
This might be a bit off-topic, but is the memory config 32 (industry standard) DIMMs + 8 centaur DIMMs?
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