[CentOS] IBM buying RedHat
rainer at ultra-secure.de
rainer at ultra-secure.de
Tue Oct 30 15:40:43 UTC 2018
Am 2018-10-30 15:53, schrieb Simon Matter:
> Still I wasn't sure how to compare the real life speed of POWER9
> compared
> to something like the AMD EPYC 7601.
It probably depends on the workload.
> And then, will everything work smooth
> on POWER the same way it does on the AMD?
AFAIK, there were a lot of microcode-updates from AMD to fix bugs in the
first batches of Threadripper and Epyc.
It was not smooth sailing from the very beginning.
> POWER seems still not a first
> preference arch for CentOS, so how would it impact us? Is it smart to
> add
> another CPU arch if we still have to run some X86 code, like in our
> case
> SAP MaxDB (which is also available for AIX on POWER but not Linux on
> POWER)?
>
> In the end we decided for AMD EPYC but kept the POWER thing in mind.
> Now
> that IBM announces the purchase of RedHat it just reminded me that this
> could become interesting again in the future. Let's see how it goes.
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