[CentOS] Best Board Your Ever Ran CentOS On?

Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Still there is a need for Linux on those machines - and that might be
> the reason that Red Hat and SuSE (and others) offer Linux for PPC64.

The IBM Power4 and 5 are the main targets for the upstream providers 
version for PPC. There is a need for it, particulary in HPC 
installations. Generally AIX is a better options on them than Linux, but 
it depends on what software you want to run on the boxes. The hardware 
is in many ways similar to many PC server parts... Adaptec SCSI HBAs, 
Broadcom ethernet, Mylex FC HBAs, DDR2 memory, PCI slots... but a main 
difference is the chipsets and I/O bandwidth available.

Oh, and the hardware hypervisor. That is sweet. When you make a 
partition to run an OS is, you select the PCI slots you want available 
to it, the amount of memory, the amount of CPU(s) with lots of config 
options... and you have virtual I/O options for network, disk and 
consoles. The hypervisor provides a virtual Ethernet switch that 
emulates 1Gbps Ethernet, but it runs at much higher speeds :) And all 
allocated resources can be dynamic... so you can add and remove PCI 
slots, memory, CPU on the fly. Nice machines :)

Sadly, I don't have a Power4 or 5 box on the net either, else I would be 
glad to donate a partition to CentOS.

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//Morten Torstensen
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