On 30/10/2018 06:46, Simon Matter wrote: >> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>> To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER >>> and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware >>> market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS alive)! >> Er, RHEL has been running on Power for a very long time. The fastest >> supercomputer in the world is Power9 + RHEL. > What I meant is that POWER could become a competitor for Intel/AMD based > servers. We're now running AMD EPYC servers with 64Cores/128Threads and we > didn't find any POWER system which could compete in this area. As a matter of interest, did you look at IBM's own Power Systems (IBM System i, AS/400, System p, as was)? They promote some of these models as having very powerful processing capabilities but I wonder how they compare in practice with Epyc or Xeon systems. -- Mark Rousell