Ubuntu 14.04 In The Power8 Cloud From RunAbove

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 14.04 In The Power8 Cloud From RunAbove

Yesterday I shared my preview of RunAbove's PowerPC cloud using IBM's latest POWER8 CPUs. RunAbove's PowerPC cloud currently offers an instance type up to 176 threads, for which I've spent the past few days of benchmarking. While initially the only operating system enabled in the POWER8 cloud was Fedora 19, now Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is also an option...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgyMjY

[ruthan]

pointless

Without side by side comparision with x86 machine with same OS is this article a bit pointless. Yes i know i could probably find some results in openbench.. results database, but i want to see it in one graph.

[nils_]

I tried it, but they only seem to offer Intel instances to me. Fail.

[jtlebigot]

I tried it, but they only seem to offer Intel instances to me. Fail.

DISCLAIMER: I'm working at OVH.

Glad you'd like to test! Have you tried activating the Power8 lab from http://labs.runabove.com/power8/ ? Note that this is a restricted preview, testing slots may be exhausted.

[nils_]

Glad you'd like to test! Have you tried activating the Power8 lab from http://labs.runabove.com/power8/ ? Note that this is a restricted preview, testing slots may be exhausted.

I followed Michaels link here on phoronix. May be the test slots are exhausted, maybe not because the web site isn't very forthcoming with information. Also of note is that I'm being redirected to the french paypal site.

[riklaunim]

And a laptop i7 comparison: http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1...KH-1410249LI53