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"content": "<p>💻 Hello Old Friend, Talos II 💻</p><p>This was my first IBM POWER9 system, acquired in 2020 and built for home/desk use. Dual socket SMT4 Sforza, 144 threads, 256-512GB RAM, various storage/net/accelerators over the years. [1]</p><p>As expected, I fell in love and acquired four IBM Power System L922-2U [2], which are presently in the colo awaiting network rebuild (remote hands this time).</p><p>The Talos II has served a variety of purposes, with most of its time running FreeBSD PPC64le (&a bit of PPC64be for fun). Sometimes also Linux, back when I was tearing into qemu code for compiler optimization hypothesis testing, RTX GPU passthrough, +validating assumptions about qemu on P9/le handling amd64 & arm64 emulation.</p><p>So, out of storage! Into the rack! New user accounts! But first it needs updated OS drives (the 3x 64GB SATADOM in Raid-Z1 need to be repurposed), and a NIC (25G-DP CX-5 or X710-DA4).</p><p>- [1] <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#Raptor_Computing_Systems_/_Raptor_Engineering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#R</span><span class=\"invisible\">aptor_Computing_Systems_/_Raptor_Engineering</span></a><br />- [2] <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#IBM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#I</span><span class=\"invisible\">BM</span></a></p><p><span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://bsd.network/@dexter\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>dexter</span></a></span> electricity comes next 🧠 </p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Linux\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/POWER9\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>POWER9</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/PPC64le\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>PPC64le</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/IBM\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>IBM</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RaptorTalos\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>RaptorTalos</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FMT2\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>FMT2</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/colo\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>colo</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/datacenter\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>datacenter</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/onprem\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>onprem</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/homelab\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/hardware\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/engineering\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/goodtimes\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>goodtimes</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sunday\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>sunday</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/meditation\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>meditation</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/whiteNoiseGeneratorsLulMeToSleep\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>whiteNoiseGeneratorsLulMeToSleep</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/WomenInTech\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>WomenInTech</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/WomenInSTEM\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a></p>",
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