By: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho. The IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is a set of open source development tools and runtime libraries that allow users to take leading edge advantage of IBM's latest POWER hardware features on Linux. A new update release for the 7.0 series is now available, and it includes the following: OpenSSL 1.0.1g, which isn't affected by the heartbleed bug . Binutils fixes references to __ehdr_start. GCC changes for the following: Fix support... [More]

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IBM Power Systems is putting data to work! On April 23, we introduced Power Systems built for bigger data demands in the cloud, expanding world's first Linux-based open server ecosystem. This provides you with tools tuned for a platform that boosts productivity and performance by removing constraints imposed by commodity architecture, along with accelerating compute and data-intensive tasks that improves cloud economics. While I trust that you have already gotten started building and deploying on this, I would like to throw a... [More]

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At Impact 2014, Doug Balog and Mark Shuttleworth provided a glimpse of the work completed on POWER8 systems with Ubuntu 14.04 from Canonical. In a Keynote presentation available on Youtube , Mark Shuttleworth's team does a demo of deploying 8 KVM guests - starting from scratch, installing the OS on each guest, the application software, configuring, running, inter-connecting, and ready for work.    JuJu's and Charms are actually pretty slick.   Something good to learn in the coming days. On the Youtube video,... [More]

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By: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho.  The IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is a set of open source development tools and runtime libraries that allow users to take leading edge advantage of IBM's latest POWER hardware features on Linux. A new release is available, and it includes the following: Support for little-endian (powerpc64le). Support for Ubuntu 14.04 (native and cross compiling from i386). Up-to-date packages: Glibc 2.19 OpenSSL 1.0.1g ... [More]

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Providing a glimpse of the activities around the OpenPOWER Foundation , Google and Tyan recently talked about their respective Power8 motherboards under development There are a number of articles available across the web, EnterpriseTech's article was a good summary of the work underway.    Both Tyan and Google offered some initial insights into their work.    Gordon MacKean posted  a picture of the motherboard on his Google+ circle. With a wide variety of Linux communities providing Power8 enabling,... [More]

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P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } by Jeff Scheel, IBM Linux on Power Chief Engineer P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Never before in my almost 25 year history with IBM have I anticipated a launch like that of our latest POWER8 systems. This launch releases the next generation of POWER processors in 1- and 2-socket scale-out servers with a focus on delivering new Linux solutions, especially in the area of open source clouds built on KVM – a dream come true for this “Chief Engineer.” For me, the most... [More]

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Here we start a working post on the many opportunities around Power Linux and open-source distro communities As Jeff Scheel posted over on Google+, he began a solicitation for help around the Debian distro Check out:  - The Debian ppc64el Port -  https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el Calling all Debian junkies!!!  The PowerLinux family of Linux community distributions is being extended to include Debian.  Feel free to chip in on the development effort.   For those who like technical... [More]

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By: Jeff Scheel, PowerLinux Chief Engineer A software provider recently said, point blank, at the beginning of our discussion, “Convince me that PowerLinux is not a new platform.” The core of my answer went like this: the value of Linux is the same for software providers as it is for customers – Linux provides a single operating system environment across different hardware platforms. Customers and partners who have both x86 Linux skills and Power System skills have all the knowledge they need to run Linux on IBM... [More]

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Reviewing some early and key milestones, this is a good time to look at the Texas A&M and IBM research collaboration project kicked off last month. Kevin Nowka, the Director of IBM Research in Austin Tx provides some insights into building a computational sciences infrastructure .   The infrastructure includes 2,000 compute nodes of a Blue Gene/Q, 75 PowerLinux 7R2 servers with the latest POWER7+ processors, and an IBM NeXtScale System.    The PowerLinux 7R2's are focused on big data... [More]

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If you are an IBM Business Partner or IBM employee who needed remote access to Power Systems servers in the past, you might have come across the Virtual Loaner Program (VLP). The VLP is gone now, but not to worry, it has been replaced by the Power Development Platform (PDP). In addition to the name change, the program added new features and comes with an improved web interface. As did the VLP, the PDP focuses on bringing ISVs, other Business Partners and IBM employees worldwide remote access to IBM POWER processor-based servers on the IBM... [More]

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By: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho.  The IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is a set of open source development tools and runtime libraries that allow users to take leading edge advantage of IBM's latest POWER hardware features on Linux. A new update release for the 7.0 series is now available, and it includes the following: GDB now ignores VDSO warnings . GCC fixes for the following issues: mullw sets condition code incorrectly. Add documentation... [More]

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Presentations from the popular Linux on Power for ISVs Technical Symposium that was held at IBM Hursley, UK last week are now available in the Folders section of the PowerLinux community (click on the Folders tab in the Files view or just use this short link http://ibm.biz/BdRrdm ).  The event was hugely successful with the theatre jam-packed with over 60 attendees including 47 ISVs and technical specialists from IBM and IBM's distributors, Avnet, Arrow and Azlan ISI. Key note was from Jeff Scheel , who was excellent as always,... [More]

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By: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho.  The IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is a set of open source development tools and runtime libraries that allow users to take leading edge advantage of IBM's latest POWER hardware features on Linux. A new update release for the 7.0 series is now available, and it includes the following: PAFLib 0.0.1 GCC fixes for the following issues: Fix for internal compiler error while building benchmark 176.gcc. Improve performance of floating... [More]

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By: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho.  The IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is a set of open source development tools and runtime libraries that allow users to take leading edge advantage of IBM's latest POWER hardware features on Linux. A new update release for the 6.0 series is now available, and it includes the following: Valgrind fixes for the following issues: Fix for "Serious error when reading debug info". Add support for [lf]setxattr . Fix unhandled... [More]

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By Jeff Scheel Everyone remembers Cheers , the 1980s television sitcom that included the well-dressed, but slightly funny looking Norm who always entered the bar as everyone called out "Norm!"  I suspect that most of us can remember several lines from the theme song, "...Where everybody knows your name, And they're always glad you came..." But, If you can't remember the them, I know that ALL of us who watched the show want to be Norm and have our name called out as we enter the room. Enterprise 2013... [More]

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By: Neli Momtaheni.  Have you ever gotten the memram error during a Linux installation? Several factors can cause this error, but often it is related to the operating system you previously had installed on your server or logical partition. Based on my experience, I get this error when I try to install Linux on a server that had been running the AIX OS. To correct this error and move on with your installation, simply issue the following commands. dev nvram wipe –nvram ​The boot process resumes,... [More]

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By: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho.  The IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is a set of open source development tools and runtime libraries that allow users to take leading edge advantage of IBM's latest POWER hardware features on Linux. A new major release is now available, and it features: New base toolchain, based on GCC 4.8.1 and glibc 2.18 POWER8 enablement POWER8 Optimized scheduler POWER8 Transactional Memory enablement POWER8 Crypto Operations enablement POWER8... [More]

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The IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is a set of open source development tools and runtime libraries that allow users to take leading edge advantage of IBM's latest POWER hardware features on Linux. A new update release for the 5.0 series is now available, and it includes the following: The GNU C Library provides an optimized version of sched_getcpu . A new version of itrace tool that supports trace controls. Fixes for Intel Threading Build Blocks headers. Binutils fixes the following issues: ... [More]

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By Jeff Scheel   For the past several years, PowerLinux has been very active on building a "social" media program.  During this time, we have learned lots and have not always been successful.  However, one of the key questions I realize that we have not properly explained is our strategy.   So, I thought I would take the time to explain some key thoughts.   Point #1: The PowerLinux social media program (online presence) is anchored here in developerWorks (dW).   The... [More]

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