New Power Linux oriented community site hosted by IBM - "Think Power Linux". Please come, join and contribute.

CRUX PPC 2.7a is available. It's mainly a bugfix release altought it, now, has a partial support for Acube Sam460ex (vga on SM502).

Issues fixed:

A blog posting talking about the release of IBM's Open Source Advance Toolchain V4.0 for POWER Systems on IBM's new developer group site - see here

CRUX PPC 2.7 is now available.

CRUX PPC is a port of CRUX for the Power Architecture® platform. It’s a GNU system with a Linux kernel and runs on Apple NewWorld (both 32 and 64bit) PowerPC, YDL Powerstation, Genesi PegasosII and EFIKA, ACube Sam440ep, IBM Intellistation POWER workstations and IBM Power Systems servers. CRUX PPC includes support for laptop-specific features, extended hardware support and server tools.

CRUX PPC 2.6 ports and pre-compiled for the IcedTea Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) and OpenOffice suite are now updated. They are available for ppc and ppc64.

Are now available two archives with the full CRUX PPC toolchain (current snapshot: 06 June 2010) already compiled in a clean environment and ready to be used for a quick update.

CRUX PPC - GNU/Linux on pSeries
IBM maintains strategic partnerships with both Red Hat and Novell for their enterprise Linux distributions. But what about Community distros?

Von der Vorstellung des Power7 verdrängt, gibt es einen noch namenlosen Prozessor von IBM, der bereits produziert werden soll. IBM will den Chip zwischen Server- und Netzwerk-Einsatz positionieren. NAS mit Mehrwert?

IBM hat den Auftrag einen neuen Supercomputer für das Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory zu bauen. Ziel sind 20 Petaflops, wesentlich mehr als alles was im Moment so rechnet.

While IBM continues to dominate the latest TOP500 supercomputer list with the highly efficient 1105 TFlops "Roadrunner", another PowerXCell8i system sneaks into the limelight: at position 221 the polish "Nautilus" sports 4 GHz Cell processors with a record-beating efficiency figure of sub-2W per GFlops.

Green500 list