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-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 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 [outlook-signature-distinguished] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20150911/cd65288a/attachment-0007.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 12661 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20150911/cd65288a/attachment-0007.png>
