Comments on: So I was building a Windows 2019 server

By: Fabian

Fabian — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 20:41:56 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

“And how long will IBM realistically hold out?”
That for sure is the main question. But I think it looks good for now (Power10 seems to be on its way)

I just really hope for a small comeback of powerful non-x86 workstations.

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 23:24:00 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

> PowerPC always underperformed VS my expectations. Not sure if it’s GCC or what, AIX always felt faster.
may because of VisualAge C++ compiler?

> And how long will IBM realistically hold out?
as long as government keep using it?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 04:18:24 +0000

In reply to Fabian.

PowerPC always underperformed VS my expectations. Not sure if it’s GCC or what, AIX always felt faster.

I know that power9 is basically the only viable ‘non x86’ platform left.

And how long will IBM realistically hold out?

By: Fabian

Fabian — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 21:16:26 +0000

kind of OT, but: What do you think about the Talos POWER9 systems, especially the upcoming Blackbird platform?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 02:27:18 +0000

In reply to ender. I'd want at least 16GB, or heck DDR3/4 sockets! PCIE slots as well! I know everyone wants ARM to be ulta low end, but I'm looking for something worthy of running as a desktop and/or server. I've seen one board but it was over $1k USD which is insane.

By: ender

ender — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 20:08:15 +0000

Yeah. It’s just enough to test if your program runs on ARM64. I’ve been looking around for any cheap ARM64 SBC that can run KVM and has a bit more memory available, but it looks like 3GB is the most you can get, which is still a bit low.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 16:42:14 +0000

In reply to ender. They just don't have enough ram for a viable desktop

By: ender

ender — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 14:43:13 +0000

You can run ARM Windows on RaspberryPi 3B and 3B+, although not all devices are supported yet.