Informational portals

• IBM Linux on Power
• IBM Linux
• IBM Customer Testimonials
• IBM Information Center
• IBM Linux Blueprints
• News and updates

Software vendors:

• Why Linux on Power?
  
• Global Solutions Directory
  Partnerworld

• IBM Virtual Loaner Program
  
• IBM Migration Factory
  
• Chiphopper Program
  (for porting to Linux on Power)

Tips for x86 to LoP ports:

• Guide to porting
  
• Development
  
• TechSupport
  
• Validation
  
• Performance
  

Community Portals

• Planet LTC
  
• IBM Power community
  
• Wikipedia Linux on Power
  
• Linux Foundation
  

IBM Power Systems Channel

• Why Systems Matter
• Scalability designed for virtualization
• Virtualization without limits
• Sun, HP, and x86 users are moving to Power

IBM's developerWorks for Linux

• DW Linux
• DW Linux Blueprints
• Summary of selected articles

IBM's InfoCenter - The "official" documentation

• Information Center for Linux

IBM HPC Central - Cross operating system and cross hardware systems

• 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

Linux on Power Performance

• Performance table of contents
• Performance forum feeds
• Performance featured articles

IBM HPC Open Software Stack

• The latest update
• More information

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
http://www.redhat.com/

• More information on Red Hat
• More information on Fedora

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

• Novell SUSE Linux
• SLES 11 Release notes
• Press release - SLES 11 ships!

Power Hardware Systems

• Facts and features
• Performance benchmarks
• Performance reports

IBM PowerVM

• PowerVM wiki pages
• PowerVM editions and options

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

• PowerVM Lx86 for x86
• developerWorks: Run Linux x86 binaries unchanged on POWER-processor based systems

Commercial Applications

• Example commercial applications available

The Redbooks Domain - Linux and IBM

Linux on Power Systems

• IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing and Monitoring
  - March 2009

• Getting started with PowerVM Lx86
  - July 2008

• Virtualizing an Infrastructure
  - January 2008

• Deploying Mission Critical Applications
  - October 2007

• Tuning Linux OS on System p
  - June 2007

• Single Processor Performance of Scientific Applications
  - July 2004

IBM Power Systems

• IBM System p Redbooks

• IBM Power Systems Redbooks

Linux

• SystemTap - Instrumenting the kernel
  - April 2009

• Linux Performance and Tuning Guidelines
  - April 2008

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

IBM installation tools

• IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux

IBM Service Tools

• Service and Productivity Tools

IBM Compilers

• See distro matrix

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

• XL C/C++
• XL Fortran

IBM XL C/C++ Version 10.1

• XL C/C++
  March 2009 update:
  - aka 10.1.0.1
  

IBM XL Fortran Version 12.1

• XL Fortran
  March 2009 update:
  aka 12.1.0.1
  July 2009 update:
  - aka 12.1.0.2
  

IBM Java

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

IBM PowerVM Lx86

• PowerVM Lx86

IBM ESSL

• Not available for download

IBM PE MPI

• Not available for download
• (openmpi is available with SLES and RHEL)

nmon

• New! Now a sourceforge project!! https://sourceforge.net/projects/nmon/
  • 12d is the latest version
  • See original page

pmcount

• AlphaWorks
  • Power 6 now supported

Advance Toolchain

• Download site
• Version 2.0-5 is now available
  • Recommended for RHEL5 and SLES 10
  • (SLES 11 has AT 2.0-5 integrated)

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

• Alphaworks home page for FDPR-pro Updated Jan 2009

powerpc-utils

• New! Moved to sourceforge - latest version is 1.2.1
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerpc-utils/
• Latest version Sept 2009 - powerpc-utils news

oprofile

• 0.9.5 now available
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/oprofile/

libhugetlbfs

• libhugetlbfs - transparently accessing Linux huge pages from an application

Power Tech Preview

• powertechprev

LPAR2RRD

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

IBM HPC Open Software Stack

• Update available
• Download site

Mailing Lists

oprofile

powerpc-utils

libhugetlbfs

linuxppc-dev Linux for Power kernel development

Available Forums

Linux for Power architecture forum

Service and Productivity Tools support forum

nmon performance tool forum

Advance Toolchain forum

C/C++ Café

HPC central forum

IBM HPC Open Software Stack forum

Installation Toolkit forum

PowerVM Lx86 forum

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

PowerVM forum - Good place to ask Virtualization questions

Forum Summaries

developerWorks Linux forums

Summary page.