Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER?

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER? by snovymgodym on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:23PM (#39306329)

The Talos stuff is cool but it's priced way too high for anyone who isn't taking a business expense tax deduction for it. Especially post 2020, the pricing for their products has gone way up.

It's what, $6000 for the 4-core, 8GB memory entry level model?

I know it isn't that insane considering what new and used POWER servers cost, but also is anyone using these who isn't locked into AIX or IBM i? Is there any real reason to use POWER when priced against commodity AMD64 machines?

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER? by sillywalk on Thursday February 08, 2024 @03:12PM (#39307011)

I don't think you can run (legally) Aix on Talos. And I doubt you could run 'i' as it needs special firmware support.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER? by snovymgodym on Thursday February 08, 2024 @03:15PM (#39307048)

I'm aware, I was more asking if anyone is invested in the ecosystem for reasons other than being locked into proprietary IBM operating systems.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER? by frabre on Friday February 09, 2024 @11:46AM (#39316859)

If you're used to building your PCs, you can build an 8-core workstation with a bunch more RAM for about $4000. While it's about double what you might spend on a similarly capable commodity desktop, you're getting a Libre boot process, fewer blobs, and a different class of chips.

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