This wiki page is a "table of contents" page for keeping track of the various portals of information recommended for customers running Linux on IBM Power Systems. Supported by an expanding core team of individuals. All pages subject to Linux wiki Terms of Use. For discussions, questions, or suggestions, please post on the Linux for Power forum.

Linux for Power Architecture information resources

General Information Portals

Start Here !! Several good informational portals

• Linux on Power - Systems - Software

• IBM and Linux (aka: ibm.com/linux)

• Linux for IBM Power Customer Testimonials - Nearly 200 pages of success stories

• News and updates

Software vendors:

• Why Linux on Power?

• IBM PartnerWorld Global Solutions Directory - search for products available

• Check out IBM's Virtual Loaner Program

• The IBM Migration Factory can be a tremendous asset and service.

• Also, the Chiphopper program (for porting to Linux on Power). For example, see the guide to porting Linux x86 to Power
  
  

• Tips for x86 to LoP ports - Development, TechSupport, Validation, Performance

Community Portals Several portals related to Power and Linux in general.

• planet-ltc - LTC'ers posting on Linux topics

• wikipedia - Linux on Power

• The Power Community

Power Architecture products

Power Hardware Systems Lots of dry factual information

• Facts and features

• Performance benchmarks

• Performance reports

IBM PowerVM

• PowerVM editions and options

PowerVM Lx86 - Take your 32-bit Linux x86 apps and run 'em on Linux on Power.

• Virtualization: PowerVM Lx86 for x86 Linux applications

• developerWorks: Run Linux x86 binaries unchanged on POWER-processor based systems

Commercial Applications

• Example commercial applications available

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
http://www.redhat.com/ - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for POWER distribution

• Red Hat

Novell SUSE

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
http://www.novell.com/products/server/ - SUSE Linux Enterprise server (SLES) for POWER distribution

• SLES 11 ships!

• Novell SUSE

Community Linux On Power Distros

• Debian

• Gentoo

• Fedora

• openSUSE

IBM product downloads

IBM installation tools

• IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux

IBM Service Tools

• Service and Productivity Tools

IBM Compilers

IBM XL C/C++ Version 9 and XL Fortran Version 11.1

• XL C/C++ Advanced Edition for Linux
• XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Linux

IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition Version 10.1 and XL Fortran Version 12.1

• XL C/C++ with (March 2009 update )
• XL Fortran with (March 2009 update)

IBM Rational Cafés

• C/C++ Café with discussions, documents, blogs and more

IBM Java

• IBM Java for Linux (Java 6, Java 5, Java 1.4.2)

IBM PowerVM Lx86

• PowerVM Lx86

Other important downloads

nmon

• Download latest version - Look for version nmon 12a for Linux. The nmon page is very busy. nmon runs on SLES9, SLES10, SLES 11 and RHEL4, RHEL 5.

Advance Toolchain

• Download site - Version 2.0-5 is now available !

Post-Link Optimization for Linux on POWER aka FDPR-pro

• Alphaworks home page for FDPR-pro Updated Jan 2009

powerpc-utils

• powerpc-utils

IBM HPC Open Software Stack

• New! Latest version for SLES 10 sp2!
• Download site (includes Version 1 for RHEL 5 and Version 2 for SLES 10 sp2)

libhugetlbfs

• libhugetlbfs - transparently accessing Linux huge pages from an application

LPAR2RRD

• LPAR CPU statistics and documentation tool for IBM Power systems servers

IBM technical information portals

IBM's developerWorks for Linux - Lots of good technical articles

• Linux developerWorks portal

IBM's InfoCenter - The "official" documentation

• Updated link! Information Center for Linux

IBM HPC Central - Cross operating system and cross hardware systems

• New! IBM HPC Open Software for SLES 10 sp2

• HPC Central

• HPC Central for Red Hat

• HPC Central for Novell SUSE

Linux on Power Alerts

• See this alert page for important notices to read before installing Linux on IBM Power Systems

Wikis and forums - Major topics for Linux with Power Architecture

Linux on Power Performance - summarizing information related to Linux on Power performance considerations

• Performance table of contents

• Performance forum feeds

• Performance featured articles

IBM HPC Open Software Stack

• New! Latest version for SLES 10 sp2

• Information on IBM HPC Open Software Stack

Linux for Power Architecture - An extensive set of older wiki pages - work is in progress as the pages are being updated and replaced

• Linux for Power Previous Home
• Index Page

Mailing lists

Linux mailing lists

• oprofile

• libhugetlbfs

• linuxppc-dev Linux for Power kernel development

developerWorks resources

developerWorks technical articles

• Nice summary of available articles

developerWorks "Linux" Forums

• Summary of Forums

developerWorks specific forums

For a better summary view of the latest posts, see this page.

Not all of these forums are always active, but the forums are the place to ask - developers do watch them.

• Linux for Power architecture

• Service and Productivity Tools Support

• nmon performance tools

• Advance Toolchain

• HPC central

• IBM HPC Open Software Stack

• Installation Toolkit

• PowerVM Lx86

• ChipHopper tool use - Porting x86 apps to Linux on Power

• PowerVM forum - Good place to ask Virtualization questions

IBM Redbooks publications for key topics

Linux

• A Redbooks Domain - Linux and IBM

IBM Power Systems

• IBM System p Redbooks

• IBM Power Systems Redbooks

Linux

• Linux Performance and Tuning Guidelines
  - July 2007

• xCAT V2 Guide for the CSM System Administrator
  - November 2008

Linux on Power Systems

• Getting started with PowerVM Lx86
  - July 2008

• Virtualizing an Infrastructure with System p and Linux
  - January 2008

• Deploying Mission Critical Applications With Linux on POWER
  - October 2007

• Tuning Linux OS on System p The POWER Of Innovation
  - June 2007

• Single Processor Performance of Scientific Applications on AIX® and Linux on POWER ™ Systems
  - July 2004