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Re:Power9 to the People by tempfs on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:21PM (#15862869)
Debian is available for POWER9.

This means you'll have at least KVM so you can run nearly anything on top of that including Windows VMs with PCI-passthrough for gaming,etc.

The cost is non-trivial but I've been working up my nerve to pull the trigger and go this route.

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Re:Power9 to the People by ptman on Thursday December 07, 2017 @01:47PM (#15872787)
KVM + Windows requires x86(-64) hardware. POWER9 and windows means QEMU, which is emulation and slow.
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Re:Power9 to the People by torpcoms on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:13PM (#15911972)
They did experiment with that in fact:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-s...

https://player.vimeo.com/video/187042840

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