Oracle's most current 12cR1 Instant Client libraries are now available for Linux on Power with both Little and Big Endian support. On Linux for Power these free, light-weight and easily installed Oracle Database libraries and SDKs are used for building and connecting client applications to remote Oracle Databases. Oracle Instant Client enables development and production deployment of Oracle Database applications. Support is provided for popular languages and environments including Node.js, Python and PHP, as well as providing access for... [More]

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      Overview       Sometimes when programming, the use of optimization flags are more than welcome in order to produce better performing applications.       The IBM Software Development Kit (SDK) for Linux on Power IDE is a wealthy programming tool that  provides several compiling optimization flags to help you produce better code and applications with better performance.       It also can give you suggestions and descriptions about what flags you have... [More]

A new update release for the 9.0 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available. This is a maintenance release for the 9.0 series (9.0-1) and contains a series of fixes: Expat provides a fix for CVE-2015-1283. Support for Fedora 22 ppc64le. GCC fix for HTM builtins aren't treated as compiler barriers on PowerPC. The GNU C Library provides: - Fix for memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines. - Always enable pointer guard. libdfp fix for fabs() is rertuning wrong values for 128-bit. Also, a tool to... [More]

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I am excited to announce the availability of the next generation of the Power Architecture. The next generation of the Power Architecture heralds a new era for systems. The new Power Instruction Set Architecture 3.0 (Power ISA 3.0)  marks the first generation of architecture developed and released since the creation of the OpenPOWER Foundation, and sustains the growth of OpenPOWER as an open ecosystem built around collaborative innovation. Marking this new era, the new Power 3.0 architecture reflects the values of our open ecosystem by... [More]

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A brand new release of IBM PowerKVM - V3.1.0 is now available. PowerKVM V3.1.0 delivers new server and I/O adapter support, enhanced availability options, and improved automation. These new PowerKVM capabilities give you more virtualization options for PowerKVM that improve usability, performance, and availability. PowerKVM V3.1.0 offers the following new functions: The Host OS runs in Little Endian mode vCPU and Memory hot-plug support vCPU hot-plug add and remove Memory hot-plug add Automated dynamic micro-threading support, which... [More]

IBM announced on Oct 5, 2015 the availability of three new POWER8 based servers that are supported by the Ubuntu Linux operating system with PowerKVM as the optional virtualization support.   The new “LC” models are the S812LC, the S822LC with integrated NVidia K40 GPU capabilities, and the S822LC for commercial workloads (non-GPU).  IBM states that the “LC” designation stands for “Linux Cloud”, although pundits also point out the “LC” could stand for “Low Cost” since... [More]

Working with Red Hat, we continue to expand our support for new IBM POWER8 systems hardware and features.  Our latest linkage with Red Hat revolves around the exciting new IBM Power System LC family of servers , and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 .   Just as IBM supported the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Beta within the Power Development Platform (PDP) program (Power Cloud), we’ll be doing the same with RHEL 7.2, but as an open Beta, available without Promo Code.  For no-charge cloud access for RHEL 7.2 , or other Operating... [More]

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Everyone who has had experience with SLES 12 and RHEL 7.1 and later versions has seen that the bootloader used on Linux on POWER is now GRUB2. This was a change as compared to the mix of Yaboot and LILO used by the previous versions, namely up to SLES 11 SP4 and RHEL 7.0. This change affects the way input parameters to the bootloader are given; for instance the location of the kernel or the initrd or initramfs, or several other inputs, that usually do not require intervention of the non-advanced user, except when launching a brand-new... [More]

The IBM SDK for Linux on Power is a free, Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It integrates C/C++ source development with the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power and classic Linux debugging and performance analysis tools. This release includes materials licensed to IBM under ILAN (International License Agreement for Non-Warranted Programs). The full licensing text can be found in the licenses folder under the installation directory. Further documentation may be found at... [More]

What is this ? The IBM Software Development Kit for Linux on Power (SDK) is a free,  Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The SDK  integrates C/C++ source development with the Advance Toolchain,  Post-Link Optimization, and classic Linux performance analysis tools,  including Oprofile, Perf and Valgrind.   What are the benefits ? The SDK is not just yet another IDE for C/C++ development. It is all about knowledge! Making the expert knowledge gathered by engineers who have been working on POWER readily... [More]

Juju certainly isn’t the world’s best kept secret on quickly-and-easily modeling and bringing services to the Cloud, but what may be a more closely kept secret is that because IBM POWER8 supports Ubuntu, the power of POWER, coupled with the magic of Charms, brings open source cloud services modeling and orchestration to the world’s premier open server platform!  Consequently, whether you know about Juju and Charms, but not POWER, or vice-versa, you will find an unbeatable combination by combining the two.   First, a... [More]

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Ron Gordon, Director, Power Systems ron.gordon@mainline.com   Use In-Memory Database to Remove the IO Bottleneck Many customers today have experienced significant growth in customer interaction via social, mobile or web processes.   With the increase of transactions, all requiring database access for both retrieval and updating, comes the problem of decreased response time from the storage device, and the corresponding possibility of customer and user dissatisfaction.   Performance used to be the function of many... [More]

Docker Registry is a server side application that enables sharing of docker images. The public registry is hosted here . If accessing the public hosted registry is not an option due to company policy, firewall restrictions etc, then one can deploy a private registry. The registry code is open-source and available under Apache License. Note that the private registry doesn't have a web-ui like the public hosted registry. Private registry is just an application providing the registry API for docker engine to work with images.   Installing... [More]

Whilst preparing for a Linux on Power workshop and coming to the step where I should power on the S822L server, I found out that I needed to use something called IPMI. Using IPMI I would be able to power on the server and get a console. IPMI is short for Intelligent Platform Management Interface, but in my case it stood for ' I P robably M iss I nstructions'. The Quick Start Guide (available at the following link: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/linuxonibm/liabq/liabqquick.htm )  uses a tool called IPMITOOL, but that... [More]

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